Smoking Pipe

Whieldon

  • Titles Smoking Pipe (Descriptive)
  • Artist Whieldon, England
  • Medium glazed creamware
  • 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.2536.2008
  • Work Type pipe
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Porcelain figure of a lioness with a tan coat, a grey nose, chartreuse-green eyes and an open mouth revealing an iron-red tongue, with a raised right forepaw, a cub beneath her breast, semi-recumbent on a mound base applied with yellow florettes and green leaves, mounted on a gilt bronze rococo scrollwork base.
Assembled seven-piece tea service of solid light blue jasper (some pieces with an additional darker blue jasper dip) with applied white jasper decoration, all decorated in the same way, the molded round tray with a central leafy floral motif and band of arabesques around the rim interspersed with small, classical vignettes, including Cupids at Play, the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, the Sacrifice to Hymen, and Aesculapius and Hygeia, the service otherwise consists of two cups and two saucers, both with acanthus leaves around the lower body with a band of ribbon below the main body, which is decorated with arabesques interspersed with classical figures, two of which are in beaded, oval reserves, the cup handles are scrolled with applied white acanthus motifs, the saucers each with a band of acanthus leaves and a smaller band of oak leaves with acorns, the teapot with like decoration, with straight spout and loop handle, the domed cover with acanthus leaf motifs and flat finial, the waste bowl, covered sugar bowl and creamer all with like decoration.
Heavy, rectangular plaque of light blue jasper with blue jasper dip and white relief with a scene of a winged cupid grappling with a faun.
Round blue jasper perfume bottle with white relief profile portrait of George III, Prince of Wales on one side, on the other three feathers with ribbon inscribed "ICH DIEN" ("I Serve") the motto of the Prince of Wales, with gold cap and funnel