Small Saucers or Butter Pat Dishes

Wedgwood

  • Titles Small Saucers or Butter Pat Dishes (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium creamware
  • Dimensions each: 1/2 x 3 in. (1.3 x 7.6 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.4018.2008.1-.9
  • Work Type saucers or dishes
  • Classification Containers

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Large, square earthenware tile partially printed and hand-painted with a circular reserve outlined by a white band within two yellow bands containing in white with blue highlights the portrait of a woman to left wearing a light blouse and apron with straw hat and hairband with flower, the ground with a blue on blue design of floral vines, the larger ground of the tile contains in various shades of blue a pattern of decorative, horizontal bands with from the top a band of small x's and solid dots; the name of the season SPR ING; a fish scale pattern; a band of open dots; a band of scrolling motifs; and a band featuring a zigzag design, the reverse with horizontal bars in relief to aid adhesion when setting the tile.