Piers Anthony Weymouth Wedgwood (1954-2014), 4th Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston

Wedgwood

2014

  • Titles Piers Anthony Weymouth Wedgwood (1954-2014), 4th Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions 4 3/8 × 3 3/8 × 1/2 in. (11.1 × 8.6 × 1.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton, AFI.154.2014
  • Work Type portrait medallion
  • Classification Medals

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Solid light blue jasper tea canister with applied white jasper relief decoration, bulbous in shape on round foot, the lower body engine turned, on one side of the canister figures from the Domestic Employment series and on the other the scene of Poor Maria featuring a seated young woman and her dog, on the shoulder a band of overlapping acanthus leaves and a band of roulette-made circles at the top of the short neck, the foot with a band of white around it, the cover (likely a marriage) with acanthus leaves and a pinched ball finial.
Solid light blue jasper urn with applied white jasper relief decoration, on square plinth with truncated corners and a pattern of stiff leaf all around with acanthus leaves at the corners, the round foot with a band of acanthus leaves and beading at the joint, the lower body with laurel leaves and the main body with swags of laurel leaves and berries hanging from small oval paterae with beaded oval medallions on each side featuring classical scenes, with two scrolled handles with paterae on the sides and applied acanthus leaf motifs, with anthemions at the terminals, the shoulder with a band of palmettes, with acanthus leaves around the flared lip, the cover a wood facsimile.
Small oval medallion of white jasperware with black jasper relief of an enslaved African man wearing only a loin cloth, kneeling and in shackles, with his hands grasped together, around him the inscription AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?
Bust in profile left in the uniform of the American Continental Army.