Triton Candle Holder

Wedgwood

1780-1800

  • Titles Triton Candle Holder (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (black basalt)
  • Dimensions 12 x 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (30.5 x 11.4 x 14 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.803.2012
  • Work Type candle holder
  • Classification Sculpture

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Obverse: Bust in profile right. Reverse: Two allegorical figures on both sides of a small column with tablets of the law.
Oval dark blue jasper medallion with white relief figure of a Zephyr, set in chased brass frame possibly to be inset into furniture.
Miniature cup and saucer of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the cup with loop handle, on both are tiny relief scenes including on the cup Hope and Anchor, a female figure next to a tree, possibly the Zodiac Virgo, and two classical figures, and on the saucer a lion and calf, Cupids with a chariot (Bacchanalian scene), two classical figures, Cupids with a goat, a flying Cupid with bow and arrow, and Cupids with an urn.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware