Plate

Whieldon

  • Titles Plate (Descriptive)
  • Artist Whieldon, England
  • Medium glazed creamware
  • Dimensions 5/8 x 9 3/8 in. (1.6 x 23.8 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.928.2011
  • Work Type plate
  • Classification Containers

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Small oval medallion of solid light blue jasper with white jasper bas relief of The Three Graces – the dispensers of Liberality, Eloquence and Wisdom as three classically dressed young women dancing in a circle with hands clasped – in simple silver mount with horizontal pin behind.
Head in profile right, in cast-iron frame.
Cup and saucer of white jasper with light green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the cup with a series of cupids at play with dogs and birds and insects, the handle with molded acanthus leaf motifs and shell terminal, the lower part of the cup and the saucer engine turned with light green and white stripes, the saucer with applied overlapping acanthus and stiff leaf motifs around the edge, the interior of the cup is lapidary polished.
Round green jasper medallion with white relief of three women holding hands and dancing