Pap Feeder with Cover

Wedgwood

  • Titles Pap Feeder with Cover (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 5 x 5 x 2 3/4 in. (12.7 x 12.7 x 7 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.715.2012a-b
  • Work Type pap feeder with cover
  • Classification Containers

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Bulb pot of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration and conforming solid white insert cover to hold the bulbs, molded and square in shape with an arched gallery around the top, the foot with a band of stiff leaf motifs, each side with a square panel each containing a classical scene, one is Sacrifice to Aesculapius, or a tripod vessel with fruit and other things, below the upper edge a band of palmettes the arches with fan motifs and paterae at each corner, the white insert cover rests inside.
Group of a happy Harlequin family consisting of Columbine wearing a turquoise and black bodice over white ruffled shirt, with white apron and red and white striped skirt, her left arm is raised and she holds a pince nez to Harlequin's face, in her right arm she holds a child Harlequin wearing a checkered costume in shades of yellow, black, red, and white, a red hat, which he holds on his head with his left hand, his right hand reaches out to grasp a potato or roll that his father is offering him; the grinning adult Harlequin wears a checkered costume, the trousers in alternating yellow, red, white, and turquoise, his tunic in red, yellow, and white with turquoise bows down the front and ruffled collar and cuffs, he also wears a red, plumed hat with large turquoise bow, his right arm in around the back of Columbine, in his left hand the potato or roll, the base encrusted with green leaves and large colorful flowers
A decorative, trellised border above with crossed hammer and gad and a miner with gad in right hand and a lantern in his left; below scrolling ornament and implements of the foundry trade.
Cupid and Psyche, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron