Teapot

Wedgwood

  • Titles Teapot (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 6 in. (11.4 x 21.6 x 15.2 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.1090.2008
  • Work Type teapot
  • Classification Containers

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Cut steel chatelaine with oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief scene, with four self-shanked black basalt cyphers or seals
Small oval teapot of light buff-colored caneware, the upper body molded to look as though it has an irregular, "feather-edged" border picked out in bright blue enamel, the lower body decorated with a series of floral garlands that run around the body — bright red roses, small blue flowers, green leaves — the upper edge with a band of white enamel highlighted with stylized green anthemion motifs between dot borders, the ear-shaped handle molded with modest leafy décor, the gently curved spout with similar "feather edge" molding highlighted in blue, the flat cover with the same white enamel border and molded decoration picked out in blue, with recumbent spaniel as knop.
Io in the Form of a Cow Guarded by Argus, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Bust in profile left in the uniform of the Prussian First Infantry Regiment with the Order of the Black Eagle, the Iron Cross, and a third military medal, with ermine mantle.