Saucers

Wedgwood

  • Titles Saucers (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware or bone china
  • Dimensions each: 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. Diam. (2.2 x 14.6 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.609.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type saucers
  • Classification Containers

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Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, with white laurel leaf border made to commemorate her Coronation in 1953
Blue and white octagonal plate with fan and circle shaped windows. The fan shaped windows have different landscape and water scenes painted in blue underglaze, while the circles have a floral and plant designs. The center of the plate has a structure to one side of the river, with some trees and foliage. On the underside on the plate the rim has stylized branches painted in underglaze.
Allegory of Art and the Light Bringing Genius, Modeled by Georg Conrad Weitbrecht, Wasseralfingen, cast iron
Small teapot of cylindrical shape of solid white jasper with lilac jasper dip and applied white and green jasper relief decoration, with ear-shaped, leaf-molded handle and straight spout with applied leaf and berry motifs at the terminal and floral garlands at the tip, around the lower body a band of overlapping acanthus leaves with delicate shading, the main body engine-turned to create checkerboard pattern of alternating white and lilac squares with small applied green jasper quatrefoils in the white squares, below the shoulder a band of leafy vines, the conforming, flat cover with same checkerboard pattern and ball finial with a band of like checkerboard motifs, the interior unglazed and with strainer.