Saucer

Wedgwood

  • Titles Saucer (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware or bone china
  • Dimensions each: 3/4 x 5 13/16 in. (1.9 x 14.8 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.2514.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type saucer
  • Classification Containers

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Bust front.
Copy of the Roman glass Portland Vase (now in the British Museum) in blue jasper dip with white jasper relief decoration, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage; the white relief has been selectively shaded - somewhat heavy-handed and unevenly - using a blue jasper slip to give the impression of enhanced translucency.
Madonna della Sedia (Madonna of the Chair), Modeled by Leonhard Posch, Royal Prussian Iron Foundries, After the original tondo (1813/14) by Raphael, cast iron
Wedgwood bone china floral brooch with one blue, white and pink flower against green leaves on a metal mount