Sugar with Cover

Wedgwood

  • Titles Sugar with Cover (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 3 15/16 in. (9.5 x 14.6 x 10 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.714.2011a-b
  • Work Type sugar with cover
  • Classification Containers

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Miniature two-handled mug of white jasper with a dark blue jasper dip, on side one is the portrait medallion of Josiah Wedgwood facing left with a banner below that reads JOSIAH WEDGWOOD/1730-1795; the other side shows the coat-of-arms of the Wedgwood family with the motto OBSTANTIA DISCINDO (we overcome all obstacles)
Plaster cast of the Portland Vase taken from the mold that was taken from the original vase from which Josiah Wedgwood made his copies, the two-handled vase in the shape of an amphora, one side shows on the left the image of a nude male emerging from an architectural structure and grasping the arm of a recumbent, draped female figure holding a sea serpent, above her is a flying cupid holding his bow and arrows, to the right is a tree and a nude male figure resting his right leg on the stump, his chin in his right hand, which is resting on his knee; on the other side left is a draped male figure seated on a rocky structure next to a column, he looks over his shoulder to his left at a central figure, a draped, recumbent female, lying on the rocky base, looking slightly left and with her right arm reaching over her head, behind her and to the right is the figure of a draped seated male looking over his right shoulder at the central figure; underneath each handle is a bearded mask; the base with the image of a cloaked figure, head lowered, wearing a wrapped headdress, with right arm raised to face, in the background foliage.
Molded pearlware plate in the form of a scallop shell, painted in shades of brown, yellow, green, purple, and flesh tones with the figure of a winged putti reclining in a landscape with billowing yellow drapery behind him and a fruiting grapevine on the ground in front of him, edged in mustard-yellow.
Creamware plate with a scalloped edge and elaborately pierced rim, the center well transfer-printed with the scene of a farm with a barn, cattle and sheep and a farmer in the foreground, within a round decorative border above which is the inscription JOHN PETER AND ANN DUPORT, GUERNSEY, 1786.