Shell Dishes

Wedgwood

  • Titles Shell Dishes (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions each: 10 x 9 x 7 in. (25.4 x 22.9 x 17.8 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.893.2008.1-.2
  • Work Type dishes
  • Classification Containers

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In central square panel the Neue Wache in Berlin, designed 1817-18 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and the cast-iron bridge over the Operngraben; in the upper left corner a monument in the form of an obelisk for Johann Gottlieb Fichte, erected at the Oranienburger Tor cemetery in Berlin; in the lower left corner a monument for Count Wilhelm von Schwerin in the Krekow church; at right a monument in the form of a tall obelisk with four lions on the base for the Russian Prince Kutusow, erected in Bunzlau, designed by Schinkel, the lions after models by Johann Gottfried Schadow.
Simple, canoe-shaped silver basket raised on oval foot with reeded edge, the body likewise with a band of reeding at the upper edge, otherwise, plain, with reeded swing handle.
Bulb pot of solid white jasper with a deep blue jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, of Greek cantharos shape, the body of inverted bell shape with two elongated ear handles with loops in the middle and mounted on a square plinth, on each side of the plinth scrolling foliate motifs with a larger leafy element in the center, the lower body with a repeating drop leaf pattern and the upper body divided into sections each with a small classical scene, including Coriolanus; the Three Graces; Beleraphon watering Pegasus; Nike and Warrior; Procession; and the Archers, the interior is glazed and with a flat round insert cover with holes to accommodate flower stems.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware