Plate and Cup Set

Wedgwood

  • Titles Plate and Cup Set (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium glazed creamware
  • Dimensions plate: 7/8 x 10 5/8 in. (2.2 x 27 cm) cup: 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (6.4 x 11.4 x 9.5 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.3039.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type plate and cup
  • Classification Containers

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Obverse: Conjoined heads right. Reverse: The rolled Constitution within a wreath of crossed laurel and oak branches.
The vase is heavy and has a cylindrical form with a tapered base. The exterior decorated with interspersed dimensional bands. In the center of the vase's body are impressed bands flanking a repeated 's' design imprinted into the form that intersect to create varying shapes. The interior is glazed dark red/plum.
Figural candlestick of solid white jasper and solid white jasper with a thin light blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, modeled as Pomona wearing a chaplet of fruit in her hair, standing and holding a cornucopia that supports the flower-shaped candle nozzle, on square plinth with applied white husk ornamentation.
Rectangular plaque of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip on the front and the back, on the front in white relief the scene of "Birth of Achilles" with Achilles mother seated on a daybed and her attendant preparing to baptize Achilles with a font.