Underdish for Tureen

Wedgwood

  • Titles Underdish for Tureen (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 1 1/4 x 12 1/2 x 10 1/8 in. (3.2 x 31.8 x 25.7 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.4192.2008
  • Work Type underdish for tureen
  • Classification Containers

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Small vase of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief of urn shape on a square plinth decorated with white anthemion motifs all around, the round foot engine-turned and with a band of white beading, the lower body with white stiff leaf motifs and the upper body with figures from the "Domestic Employment" series, including women and children at play with a dog and birds in a landscape with trees, around the shoulder a band of white jasper overlapping laurel leaves and berries, the two twisted handles terminate in lion masks, the neck is engine-turned and has a band of white beading below the lip, the cover is a wood replacement.
Small asparagus shell of white soft-paste porcelain with low vertical, scalloped sides that taper towards one end, open at both ends to allow bundles of asparagus spears to be contained inside, the interior printed in underglaze blue in the "Fisherman" or "Pleasure Boat" pattern, above and below the printed scene a border of small blue square elements with a white dot in the middle above a repeating C-scroll and dot pattern, the exterior and interior sides with a similar repeating geometric pattern.
Round blue jasper plaque with white relief of Apollo holding Lyre and oak leaf and acorn border, in pencil on back "BRITISH FILM ACADEMY "OSCAR"/WHEN PRESENTED IS INSCRIBED IN GOLD/"BRITISH FILM ACADEMY AWARD" + YEAR". These plaques were presented between 1953 and 1968
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware