Plates

Wedgwood

  • Titles Plates (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Rockingham glazed creamware
  • Dimensions each: 1 x 5 3/4 in. (2.5 x 14.6 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.4262.2008.1-.3
  • Work Type plates
  • Classification Containers

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Pair of cast-iron earrings, pierced and with scrolling foliage; extended earwires, one bent.
Small, shell-shaped plate with mustard colored edge, in the center the scene of a man and a woman sitting under a tree in a landscape near a water’s edge and surrounded by lush flora. The woman is seated with her knees up wearing a white blouse with blue sash and a red skirt, she plays a recorder while the man leans against her legs, he wears a white tunic and green vest; with blue cloud-like smudges in the sky.
Round dark blue jasper portrait medallion with white relief portrait of William Pitt (1759-1806), younger son of Earl of Chatham, English statesman and successful orator, he entered Parliament in 1781 and became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1782, aged 23, and First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer before he reached his 25th Birthday. In 1800 he was responsible for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
Classical Warrior Collapsing in Front of a City Gate, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron