Shell Dishes

Wedgwood

  • Titles Shell Dishes (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions .1: 3 1/2 x 2 x 1 3/4 in. (8.9 x 5.1 x 4.4 cm) .2: 3 1/2 x 2 x 1 3/4 in. (8.9 x 5.1 x 4.4 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.2974.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type dishes
  • Classification Containers

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Small, oval plaque (truncated at the lower edge) of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief decoration of the Muse Urania who presided over astronomy, and often holds a compass used by astronomers in her hand, standing in full figure next to a pedestal with a globe at her feet.
Green and white jasper with one of Flaxman's Seasons
Large, heavy bowl of coarse beige/brown stoneware, covered with a gray-green glaze that is mottled, letting the color of the clay show through, the central well with a scrolled design in the glaze, the rim of the bowl rubbed free of glaze.
Round blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Thrasybulus (440-388BC) facing right, He was an Athenian general and democratic leader. His public career began in 411 BC, when he frustrated oligarchic rising in Samos . Elected general by the troops, he effected the recall of Alcibiades, a former general accused of having profaned the hermae of Athens. and assisted him in several successful naval campaigns. In 404, when exiled by the Thirty , he retired to Thebes. In the following winter with 70 men, he seized Phyle, a hill fort on Mt. Parnes near Athens. His supporters soon grew so with 1,000 men, he repelled an attack by the oligarchs. In autumn 403, following skirmishes with a Spartan expedition under King Pausanias, a reconciliation was effected and democracy was restored.