Supper Set

Wedgwood

  • Titles Supper Set (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions each: 1 1/4 x 14 x 6 9/16 in. (3.2 x 35.6 x 16.7 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.518.2012.1-.4
  • Work Type supper set
  • Classification Containers

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Small custard cup of solid white jasper with light blue jasper dip and applied white jasper lattice work relief decoration overall, with double twisted handle, the conforming cover with decorative white jasper lattice work on white jasper ground, with flat finial.
Bust in profile left.
Wedgwood bone china and metal flower brooch with 4 white and yellow flowers above blue leaves.
Small, silver fruit or sweetmeat basket on raised, pierced oval foot with beaded edge, the basket of similar oval form with beaded edge and two bands, one at the upper body, one at the lower, of pierced decoration in a kind of engraved leaf motif, the central band with pierced roundels inset with stylized floral motifs, the outside of the basket left undecorated, the inside walls engraved with floral swags between the pierced motifs, the central well engraved with a lion’s head erased with tongue (crest of many different families), with beaded swing handle.