Sugar Plate

Wedgwood

  • Titles Sugar Plate (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 5/8 x 4 7/8 in. (1.6 x 12.4 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.706.2011
  • Work Type sugar plate
  • Classification Containers

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So-called "Fairyland Lustre" octagonal bowl, outside painted from the Woodland Elves VI series in "Fiddler in Tree": massive tree trunks with branches bearing large green leaves form arches under which fairies play. A fiddler is perched on a branch above leapfrogging elves. Painted in gold, purple, green and pale yellow. Inside painted in "Ship and Mermaid": Mottled pillars supporting ogee arches with a rose-backed grille reveal a type of mediaeval French chateau on a rocky shore and a collection of objects: a galleon in full sail, the head of a crocodile, a mermaid and a dovecote on a small island with two bat-winged figures seated back to back.
Small vinaigrette in the form of a fish of a bass type with gray-green scales and red fins, the middle opens up to reveal a small container covered with a pierced lid of gilt silver, with additional gilt silver mounts and eye attached to the nose for hanging.
Heavy cylindrical vase that tapers inward and then flares out towards the base. The vase has a white glaze and irregular raised, horizontal lines that continue down the form. The body is decorated with light blue and black splotches around the form that are tinged green, appearing almost like scorch marks on the vase. The vase's lip flares up and out slightly and the upper part of the vase's interior is glazed light blue. The rest of the vase's interior is unglazed.
Bowl, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware