Saucers

Wedgwood

  • Titles Saucers (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions each: 3/4 x 4 15/16 in. (1.9 x 12.5 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.4046.2008.1-.10
  • Work Type saucers
  • Classification Containers

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Oval tri-color jasper (dark blue, lilac, and white) cameo with white relief sacrificial scene
Small hollow drum for a lamp or candelabrum of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, round and with a hole at each end, the body with a band of oak leaves at the bottom and a band of intersecting circles at the top, the central body with small relief scenes including, Cupid as Oracle; figures from the Domestic Employment series; the figure of Justice with another figure on a cloud (not a typical Wedgwood motif); and a couple before an urn with a female figure with wreath and bust on pedestal.
Large vase of solid white jasper with black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, resting on a tall, heavily ornamented pedestal base, the urn-shaped body with round foot decorated with applied white anthemion motifs, the two handles in the form of serpents holding an egg above a small portrait relief of Medusa, the main body with the relief "Apotheosis of Virgil" after John Flaxman featuring winged figures holding wreaths, a seating figure with a lyre and another with a long horn, in the center the figure of Virgil, classically draped and holding a scroll, the cover is surmounted with the figure of Pegasus, the pedestal base is square with truncated corners, at each is a griffin and on the sides are two small reliefs with classical scenes and two small reliefs with fruit and garlands, the border below the upper edge of the pedestal includes scrolling foliage and anthemion motifs.
Plain cream-colored stoneware mortar and pestle, the pestle with a rounded wood handle.