Vase

Wedgwood

  • Titles Vase (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware
  • Dimensions 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (26.7 x 16.5 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.1127.2011
  • Work Type vase
  • Classification Containers

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Creamware pitcher with a pearl glaze molded in high relief with a fluted loop handle with leafy terminals highlighted in green and blue and a leafy spout highlighted in blue, with a raised blue band at the shoulder and below it against a stippled ground the portraits of three men, on one side a man clutching a jar within a reserve outlined in green, above him a banner that reads SPENDTHRIFT supported by a portrait in profile left, under the spout the portrait of William Shakespeare with brown hair and wearing a blue cloak, with a two-part banner that reads SHAKESPEAR / THE POET, likewise supported by two portraits in profile left, on the other side in a reserve similar to the first, a man with a bag of coins and a banner above that reads THE MISER along with a portrait in profile left.
Rectangular blue jasper plaque with white relief scene of four putti dancing and playing music, possibly an adaption of Sacrifice to Hymen
Head in profile right.