Somnus

England

  • Titles Somnus (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium ivory
  • Dimensions 1 7/8 x 2 7/8 x 1 1/2 in. (4.8 x 7.3 x 3.8 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.938.2011
  • Work Type sculpture
  • Classification Sculpture

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Oval blue jasper plaque with white relief scene depicting a Music lesson, a companion piece to the Infact Academy. Modelled by Hackwood c.1785
Cup and matching saucer of buff-colored lilac jasper dip, the cup footed and the lower part of the body engine-turned to reveal a lilac and white striped pattern, the upper body with white relief on the lilac ground, the figures drawn from the Domestic Employment series and cupids at play, with a reeded loop handle, the interior of the cup polished; the conforming saucer with similar engine-turned decoration in a lilac and white striped pattern, the edge with a border of applied white acanthus and stiff leaf ornament.
Wedgwood oval blue jasper plaque, presented to all Wedgwood employees who went to fight in the Great War 1914-1919, this particular plaque was presented to Private, Ernest Bailey of the Royal Defence Corps who before going to war was a painter at Wedgwood's Etruria factory. The front of the plaque has a border of leaves which surround the central scene of Minerva and two other figures with a banner Justice and Liberty 1914-1919.
Small oval medallion of solid blue jasper with white bas relief of Bellerophon watering Pegasus below Parnassus – Pegasus, the winged horse, led by Bellerophon bows his head in drink before attacking the three-headed monster Chimaera – set in a simple silver mount with horizontal pin on reverse.