Tray

Wedgwood

  • Titles Tray (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium bone china
  • Dimensions 7/8 x 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (2.2 x 20 x 14.9 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.4064.2008
  • Work Type tray
  • Classification Containers

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Octagonal blue jasper plaque with white relief figure of Zephyr with garland, Josiah Wedgwood made these medallions in a range of sizes. According to his printed sale catalogue of 1779, the ones of this size were especially suitable 'for inlaying in fine Cabinets, Writing-Tables, Bookcases [etc] of which they form the most beautiful enrichment at moderate Expence.' They were also mounted on wooden and ivory tea canisters, on small boxes for snuff, patches, toothpicks and cards, and were incorporated into cut-steel brooches, bracelets and other jewellery.
Small, rectangular plaque of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief with figures of women and children from the "Domestic Employment" series after Elizabeth Lady Templetown, a Lady of the Royal Household, who was a skillful silhouette artist and submitted designs for Wedgwood's use.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of two beaded sunflower paterae supporting a floral swag containing roses and other flowers with two trailing ends on the left, and the Death of Hector showing Achilles and Hector fighting, with a body on the ground on the right, the edge slightly beveled.
Round jasper cameo with relief of Cupid with bow, soldered to metal wire and dipped in copper