Sauceboat

Wedgwood

  • Titles Sauceboat (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 3 1/8 x 8 5/16 x 6 3/4 in. (7.9 x 21.1 x 17.1 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.523.2012
  • Work Type sauceboat
  • Classification Containers

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Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Goblet-shaped vase on round foot of white jasperware with yellow jasper dip and applied light blue jasper relief decoration, the molded foot with applied stiff leaf motifs, the lower body engine turned to create yellow and white stripes, with applied blue bell flowers on the yellow stripes, the main body with an applied light blue arabesque of scrolling foliage and flowers against the yellow ground.
Collar, Ireland, cotton with linen ground
Covered urn of solid light blue jasper with white jasper relief, resting on a square plinth decorated with anthemion motifs, the foot with acanthus leaves, the lower body with modified egg and dart decoration and the main body with the relief scene of six Bacchanalian boys in a landscape, on one side they are gathering grapes in baskets, on the other they are drinking wine, with a band of grapevines and leaves below the edge and egg and dart motifs on the edge with a band of laurel leaves and berries just below the lip, the conforming cover with stiff leaf motifs and a pinecone finial.