Plates

Wedgwood

  • Titles Plates (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions each: 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (1.6 x 24.1 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.3568.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type plates
  • Classification Containers

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Tall, colorful majolica ewer on square base of mottled green color, decorated with foliage, the foot in shades of green with foliage, fluting and beading, the yellow body has a green band of acanthus leaves in the middle and a pattern of green acanthus leaves projecting from the foot towards the middle. Atop the body, behind the spout sits Triton, half man, half fish, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, who rides a sea monster, whose head is mounted on the front of the ewer and from which projects sea weed, the handle of the ewer is brown and also made to look like organic material, the inside of the spout is green
Tall, bottle-shaped potpourri vase, of white stoneware covered with a blue glaze and a clear pearl glaze, the main body with a pattern of blue and white stripes below a blue band with molded white swags hanging from ribbons, below this a band of beading and above a band of checkerboard pattern, with two covers, one with flat shoulder and pierced with eight large and eight smaller holes, with long striped neck, the other a small, domed, stripped cover with ball finial is a facsimile.
Oval black jasper medallion with relief white profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) facing left, wearing a fur hat. Taken from a terra cotta portrait by John Baptiste Nini.
Small snuff bottle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration with on one side the arms of the City of Ipswich (UK) and the name IPSWICH in a banner below, on either side a goat's head mask.