Platter

Wedgwood

  • Titles Platter (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stone china
  • Dimensions 1 3/4 x 20 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (4.4 x 52.1 x 39.1 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.722.2012
  • Work Type platter
  • Classification Containers

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Small porcelain whistle in the form of a dog's head, the dog white with brown spots, yellow eyes, and black nose.
Octagonal brooch or buckle comprised of a dark blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of Coriolanus – Coriolanus with his wife and mother who entreat him to return to Rome – in a cut-steel mount of faceted steel beads set in circles with an outer band of smaller faceted steel beads.
Covered urn of solid white jasper with green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, ovoid in shape and resting on a square plinth decorated with palmettes, the round foot with a band of laurel leaves, the body heavily decorated with stylized leafy motifs, arabesques of scrolls, flowers and leaves, and a band of ribbon entwined with ivy leaves, the thick round cover with green dip on both sides, on one a large cupid finial, the other side appears as if it might have originally had some sort of finial also.
Creamware Liverpool-type jug decorated on one side, transfer-printed in black, a ship at sea and at full mast with an American flag and on the other side, likewise printed, a map of America with a banner reading WASHINGTON and the figures of Washington and others along with a trumpeting angel, below a staff with the word LIBERTY, with scattered leafy gold elements around the body and swags of gilding below the rim, below the beak-shaped spout the American eagle with the motto of the United States, with loop handle.