Saucers

Wedgwood

  • Titles Saucers (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions each: 11/16 x 5 5/16 in. (1.7 x 13.5 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.4080.2008.1-.3
  • Work Type saucers
  • Classification Containers

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Small, slender, heavily engraved silver sugar tongs the arms straight and decorated with bright cut engraving in a repeating pattern of floral and leafy motifs, the pointed wells with cross hatching, with an oval reserve designed for a monogram (left empty) between cross hatching and leafy elements.
Wide, simple fruit bowl, Keith Murray shape 3806, finished with a Moonstone glaze. A series of engine-turned concentric rings encircle the top of the bowl, near the mouth. The rings are repeated on the pedestal base.
Oval medallion of light blue jasper with white jasper relief depicting the "Bourbonnais Shepherd," a man sitting on a rock under a tree with a dog.
Cast-iron key hook in the shape of a cartouche, pierced with scrolling foliage and shell motifs, from this element hangs an acanthus leaf pendant and hook.