Palette

Wedgwood

  • Titles Palette (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 3 3/4 x 2 7/8 x 1/16 in. (9.5 x 7.3 x 0.2 cm)
  • 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.1488.2011
  • Work Type palette
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Trophy plate of white jasper with black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, with a central vignette of Bellerophon Watering Pegasus surrounded by scrolled ribbon and vine banding, the border with floral festoons terminating at ram's heads, trophies and small figural cameos with classical subjects, with a band of florets around the rim.
Round dark Portland blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portraits of Harry and Nettie Buten, set in gold as pendant with gold chain necklace
Figure of the poet John Milton standing at a podium on a rectangular base in contemporary dress with drapery, holding in his left hand a scroll upon which a text from his "Paradise Lost" in gilt reading, " ....just and righteous. Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall."
Small asparagus shell of white soft-paste porcelain with low vertical, scalloped sides that taper towards one end, open at both ends to allow bundles of asparagus spears to be contained inside, the interior printed in underglaze blue in the "Fisherman" or "Pleasure Boat" pattern, each of the interior sides and above and below the printed scene a border of small blue octagonal elements with a white dot in the middle above a repeating C-scroll and dot pattern.