Plates

Wedgwood

  • Titles Plates (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions each: 3/4 x 7 in. (1.9 x 17.8 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.4030.2008.1-.4
  • Work Type plates
  • Classification Containers

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Square lab trial for a black jasper plaque with white relief of Thalia. Thalia is one of the nine Muses. She is the muse of comedy and holds a mask and a shepherd's crook modelled by John Flaxman in about 1776
Set of four, tall, sterling silver candlesticks architectural in form and neo-Gothic/neoclassical in style, each with a large, square base decorated with a diaper pattern within which are stylized flowers raised against a stippled ground, the corners are covered with upwardly scrolling acanthus leaves; from the base the stick rests on a fluted foot upon which sits a square pedestal from which extends the actual stick, which is composed of two slender columns at each edge with acanthus leaves at top, all bound by three sets of three bands each; between the columns are quatrefoils; the finial is in the form of a footed urn, the foot with four individual trefoils between acanthus leaves, the urn is also decorated with trefoils and stylized acanthus leaves, and holds a square, removable bobeche with pierced corners and scrollwork; on three of the four bobeches is an engraved crest: an eagle with outstretched wings atop a crown set with feathers.
Cup and saucer of solid white jasper with lilac jasper dip and applied white and green jasper relief decoration, the cup slightly tapered and with a band of acanthus leaves around the lower edge, the main body engine-turned to create a lilac and white checkerboard pattern with applied green quatrefoils on the white squares, a vine of oak leaves runs around the upper edge, the white loop handle with applied green leaf decoration, the conforming saucer with like checkerboard design and vine of oak leaves running around the outer edge.
Bowl, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware