Shaker

England

  • Titles Shaker (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium bone china
  • 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.3533.2008
  • Work Type shaker
  • Classification Containers

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Soft-paste porcelain figure of a so-called "Mansion House Dwarf" or "Dwarf Crier" standing in full figure on a round, grassy base and wearing black shoes with pink ribbons, a striped pantaloons with floral doublet and pink sleeves, with gilded highlights, holding a staff in his left hand, with large brown mustache and wearing a tall conical hat with narrow brim highlighted in gold and with a black ribbon, the top of the hat has a piece of newsprint with advertisements.
Octagonal tri-color jasper (lilac, dark blue, and white) cameo with white relief of a Nymph Playing Cymbals
Cigarette Case, Russia, enamel
D-shaped bulb pot of modified bombé form with gilded bands at top and bottom and repeating pattern of gold against white. In the middle a hand-painted landscape in monochrome purple against a green base. Landscape with river scene, trees, men fishing at a gushing water fall, above this an antique temple, in the distance cows in a pasture and people.