Sock Warmers

Wedgwood

  • Titles Sock Warmers (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions each: 5 x 2 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (12.7 x 5.7 x 11.4 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.742.2010.1-.2
  • Work Type warmers
  • Classification Sculpture

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Round dark blue medallion with white relief profile portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) facing left, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India; only child of the Duke of Kent and Victoria Maria Louisa of Saxe Coburg; born at Kensington Palace, 1819. She was crowned in 1838, and in 1840 married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha by whom she had nine children. Victoria had strong likes and dislikes among the politicians of the day, and although she was, on the whole, a constitutional sovereign, she retained a keen appreciation of her own powers.
Cast from mold with profile portrait of George Washington
Small, footed helmet-shaped creamer or cream jug with serpentine sides, the pouring lip broad and elongated, the high loop handle ribbed, the ribbing extends to around the upper edge of the piece, the slender stem of the foot widens to rest on a narrow plinth with ribbed sides, the body is decorated with bright-cut engraving in a pattern of floral garlands surrounding on each side a shield, which is empty save for one, which bears a crest, the upper body with a band of stylized floral elements, the foot with delicate engraved elements and a circle of beading, the upper side of the plinth likewise with a decorative band
On the square base, the figure of a female vintner in Rhenish costume with vat and basket.