Plates

Wedgwood

  • Titles Plates (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium creamware
  • Dimensions 3/4 x 10 in. (1.9 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.4010.2008.1-.23
  • Work Type plates
  • Classification Containers

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Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief of Cupid with the club of Hercules
Cast iron portrait medallion modeled in high relief with the image of the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné; 1707-78) in profile right in civilian dress with a sprig of Linnaeus borealis, or twinflower, in his buttonhole and wearing the Order of the Polar Star, a Swedish order of chivalry, below the portrait is the name LINNÆUS, at the top is a hook to hang.
Small, silver fruit or sweetmeat basket on raised, pierced oval foot with beaded edge, the basket of similar oval form with beaded edge and two bands, one at the upper body, one at the lower, of pierced decoration in a kind of engraved leaf motif, the central band with pierced roundels inset with stylized floral motifs, the outside of the basket left undecorated, the inside walls engraved with floral swags between the pierced motifs, the central well engraved with a lion’s head erased with tongue (crest of many different families), with beaded swing handle.
Large, plain, two-tiered jelly mold of creamware with a pearl glaze, in a pattern of zigzags on the diagonal on both the lower and upper tiers.