Shards

England

  • Titles Shards (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium basalt
  • 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.4232.2008
  • Work Type shards
  • Classification Containers

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Oval plaque of light blue jasper with blue jasper dip and white relief with the figure of Apollo with bowed head and wearing a drapery around his shoulders, holding a small dish.
Rectangular black basalt intaglio with Cupid and earth(?) on scales, inscribed "L'AMOUR L'EMPORTE(?)" ("Love Prevails"?)
This teardrop-shaped custard cup or dessert pot is made from a fine sheet of moulded yellow jasper which has been decorated with a crenellated edge and the ornamentation of a fine white jasper lattice or trellis design. It was made between 1790 and 1800.
Large creamware chocolate pot of truncated cone shape with a small beak-shaped spout and indented loop handle, the body decorated in shades of green and brown with entwined garlands of husk ornaments, the unusual, rare double cover similarly decorated and with a ball finial highlighted with a pink floral element.