Portrait Medallion

Wedgwood

  • Titles Portrait Medallion (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 x 1/4 in. (7.3 x 6 x 0.6 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.1469.2011
  • Work Type medallion
  • Classification Medals

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Shallow dish or tray of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, rectangular in shape with truncated corners, around the interior a band of roses along the edge and in the well four small relief scenes including, "The Muses Watering Pegasus," "Aurora," and two cupids with swans.
Heart-shaped covered box of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, on the cover the relief scene of Ulysses staying the Chariot of Victory within a rose border, on both the box and cover are small floral motifs.
Ladies’ covered paint box of light blue and white jasperware, oval in shape, the main body with stippled ground and decorated in relief with scenes from “Setting Out on the Hunt,” “Bringing Home the Game,” and “The Arts,” with groups of putti with dogs and hunting accoutrements, carrying game, and playing instruments, the slightly domed cover with acanthus border and sunflower finial with applied leaves against stippled ground; the interior outfitted with a blue jasper holder with twelve holes to hold paint cups and fourteen small white jasper paint cups.
Obverse: The figure of Fortune standing on a wheel in the sea holding a sail with the motto "FRONTE CAPILLATA EST," in the background a sailboat and coastal landscape. (Reverse is blank.)