Stand

Wedgwood

1930-1940

  • Titles Stand (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions 3/4 × 5 1/4 in. Diam. (1.9 × 13.3 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.3582.2008
  • Work Type stand
  • Classification Containers

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A group of 245 identical, small, round, plain "stones" of black basalt designed for use in the game of Go.
Rectangular hinged box with marble top and sides.
Oval dark blue jasper plaque with white relief of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche. The subject was originally taken from a Renaissance gem, a sardonyx, then in the Marlborough collection and now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. There are three known versions of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche all taken from the original Marlborough gem.
In the middle the gate to the entrance hall at Babelsberg Castle, flanked on either side by figures from the iron bridge in Sanssouci, mounted in cast-iron frame.