Schumacher: Wedgwood Today (Wallcoverings with Companion Fabrics)

Wedgwood

  • Titles Schumacher: Wedgwood Today (Wallcoverings with Companion Fabrics) (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • 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.4503.2008
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Small oval medallion of white jasper with black dip and white bas relief of Fame Inscribing an Urn to the Memory of Elisabeth, Archduchess of Austria (1767-1790) – a winged Fame kneels before a large urn on pedestal with trumpet in left hand and stylus in right, he inscribes the urn while a standing classically-dressed figure behind him drapes it, the Austrian eagle lies at the base of the pedestal, the scene delicately shaded with black jasper slip, set in a silver mount adorned with marcasite, the elaborate finial comprised of flowers and leafy elements set with marcasite, with eye for a chain.
Plaster cast of the New Year's card with a view of the Königsstuhl in Rense by Stolzenfels on the Rhine.
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.
Small, shell-shaped plate with mustard colored edge, in the center the scene of a man and a woman sitting under a tree in a landscape near a water’s edge and surrounded by lush flora. The woman is seated with her knees up wearing a white blouse with blue sash and a red skirt, she plays a recorder while the man leans against her legs, he wears a white tunic and green vest; with blue cloud-like smudges in the sky.