Sweetmeat Dishes

Wedgwood

  • Titles Sweetmeat Dishes (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions each: 7/8 x 4 11/16 x 2 11/16 in. (2.2 x 11.9 x 6.8 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.4155.2008.1-.4
  • Work Type sweetmeat dishes
  • Classification Containers

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On rectangular base, a male peasant kneels behind a bucket.
Solid light blue jasper cup and saucer with applied lilac and white relief decoration, cylindrical in shape and decorated with applied lilac medallions containing flying cupids, and white relief including heavy fruiting festoons terminating at ram's heads, ribbons, classical vignettes and trophies, with floral motifs around the lower body and below the lip a trail of leafy ivy vines, with leaf-molded handle, the saucer similarly decorated.
Octagonal blue jasper intaglio or cypher
Portrait bust of Queen Luise of Prussia in profile right wearing a low-cut gown with ermine mantel held together with a string of pearls that rests below the breast, with pearls in her hair and wearing a diadem.