Plates

Wedgwood

  • Titles Plates (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Pearlware or Queen's ware
  • Dimensions each: 7/8 x 10 in. (2.2 x 25.4 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.4145.2008.1-.12
  • Work Type plates
  • Classification Containers

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Creamware dish, possibly a stand for a cup or serving piece, squarish and lobed in shape, hand-painted just inside the rim with a pattern of grape vines with green grape leaves and purple grape clusters, with a brown band on rim.
Small cup-shaped vase with foot, of white stoneware covered with a brown glaze, the main body fluted and decorated with a series of cream and brown stripes, below the lip a band of cream with applied brown star-shaped and clover motifs between two rows of beading, the interior glazed brown.
Oval blue jasper cameo with white relief scene of Cupid with swan, set in pinchbeck brass as buckle
Necklace comprised of delicate elements of iron filigree, the links of graduated sizes in the shape of circles and ovals, at each end a rosette, the clasp a cast-iron oval, pierced medallion with rosebush motif.