Plates

Wedgwood

  • Titles Plates (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Rockingham glazed creamware
  • Dimensions each: 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (1.3 x 13.3 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.4263.2008.1-.28
  • Work Type plates
  • Classification Containers

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Bowl, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Seated Figure, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Solid light blue jasper urn with white terracotta stoneware plinth and applied white jasper relief decoration, the small square plinth with molded oval motifs, the round foot with molded acanthus leaf decoration, the lower body with stylized leaf motifs and the main body with a procession of winged cupids (Procession of Little Boys) holding laurel leaf garlands between them with birds at their feet against a stippled ground, a double band of molded beading and guilloche below the shoulder, the shoulder and neck with molded fluting and a band of white jasper beads, with two scrolled handles with oval medallions with sunflowers and beading as terminals, the cover is a facsimile.
Cup and saucer of enameled buff-colored caneware, the cup footed with a band of blue around the foot and a bamboo-molded handle, the exterior fluted and decorated with blue and white enamel to resemble a band of bamboo poles with blue bands and bamboo leaves, the cup edged in blue, the conforming saucer likewise edged in blue and with the same blue and white bamboo pattern around the interior rim.