Pitcher

Wedgwood

  • Titles Pitcher (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 8 x 6 1/4 x 5 5/8 in. (20.3 x 15.9 x 14.3 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.952.2008
  • Work Type pitcher
  • Classification Containers

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Trophy plate of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, with a central vignette of the Aurora in her Chariot 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.
Small custard cup of solid white jasper with light blue jasper dip and applied white jasper lattice work relief decoration overall, with double twisted handle, the conforming cover with decorative white jasper lattice work on white jasper ground, with flat finial.
Sugar bowl with a bucket shape that flares out twice and then tapers in towards the base. The exterior is matte black with some slight impressed banding visible on the body. The lid is circulated with an exaggerated 'u' shape in its center.
One of a set of four large figures of soft-paste porcelain representing the "Four Quarters of the Globe," each depicted as a chubby child dressed in a costume deemed appropriate to his or her region and associated with symbols of the different continents. Europe: the figure of a female child wearing a white tunic decorated with flowers and cinched together with a yellow ribbon, over her shoulders she wears draped a yellow and red cloak, at her feet are symbols of the arts, sciences, and religion such as paintbrushes and a painter's palette, sheet music, books, and a bishop's miter scattered amongst flowers, in her right had she holds an orb, her left hand raised and outstretched, on her head a crown.