Pendant Cross

Wedgwood

  • Titles Pendant Cross (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware) and gold
  • Dimensions 2 1/4 x 1 1/8 x 1/8 in. (5.7 x 2.9 x 0.3 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.600.2011
  • Work Type jewelry
  • Classification Jewelry

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Caneware conceit (shape 419 in Shape Book) in the form of an oval, tiered cake with sides made of lady fingers and white stoneware applied relief that simulates icing in a design of beading within arched and interlaced borders, on the top an intertwined laurel wreath with musical trophies inside, with a solid flat base with a single large firing hole.
Small molded caneware bowl, footed, the lower body with bamboo fluting, the main body with Bacchanalian scenes featuring young boys or putti figures, the interior glazed a creamy white.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of two beaded sunflower paterae supporting a floral swag containing roses and other flowers with two trailing ends on the left, and the Death of Hector showing Achilles and Hector fighting, with a body on the ground on the right, the edge slightly beveled.