Razor

1900-1950

  • Titles Razor (Descriptive)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ireland, AFI.19.1982.8
  • Work Type razor
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Mug with a rounded cylindrical form that flares out at two points and tapers towards the base. The mug's exterior is speckled dark brown stoneware. Two areas near the handle appear almost smeared, like they were disturbed before the glaze was dry. There is also a blank area with few dark brown spots near the base o fthe mug. The exterior of the mug has thin horizontal, imprinted lines uniformly circling the form. The lip and interior are off-white toneware with dark-brown specks.
Oval blue medallion with white relief profile portrait of Rousseau (1712-1778) facing right, Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer and composer in the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought. "Julie, or the New Heloise" was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction. In addition, during the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the French philosophers among members of the Jacobin Club.
Jug of white, soft-paste porcelain with cabbage leaf molded relief decoration on the main body, with long cylindrical neck molded in relief in a kind of fluted pattern with a border at the lip of repeating leaf and dot motifs (somewhat obscured by the lead glaze), with loop and scroll handle and small beak spout with molded mask; the jug with printed patterns on three sides, on either side of the main body the "Iron Bridge" pattern and below the spout the "Broseley Pipe Smoker" pattern above which a small sprig of grape vine with leaves and a bunch of grapes, on the neck above each side with the "Iron Bridge" pattern a demilune with blue sky and fluffy white clouds; the interior lip also printed in blue with a narrow band of circles and dots, two white stripes, and a wider band of Asian-like geometric forms and flowers, a variation of the so-called Fitzhugh pattern.
Oval medium blue jasper intaglio with standing female figure