Pair of Vases

England

  • Titles Pair of Vases (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium glazed creamware
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.628.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type vases
  • Classification Containers

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Small, footed waste bowl of white stoneware with applied arabesques of scrollwork, flowers and foliage around the body against a stippled ground, the interior covered with a lead glaze.
Octagonal blue jasper intaglio or cypher, "B Y"?
Round cast-iron medallion depicting an allegory of "Night"—the winged figure of Night floats through the air and carries the twins Sleep and Death in her arms, an owl flies behind her below her wings.
Large, heavy cast-iron covered tureen resting on an oval foot with short, beaded stem, the oval tureen in squat urn form with raised foliage on the bottom and a band of stylized floral motifs around the midsection, with a handle on either side in the form of two connected sea creatures with open mouths and split, scrolling tails, the domed cover with a band of acanthus leaves and pinecone knob.