Vase

Wedgwood

  • Titles Vase (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium yellow jasper or caneware
  • Dimensions 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (21.6 x 11.4 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.1184.2011
  • Work Type vase
  • Classification Containers

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Caneware conceit (shape 419 in Shape Book) in the form of an oval, tiered cake with sides made of lady fingers and white stoneware applied relief that simulates icing in a design of beading within arched and interlaced borders, on the top an intertwined laurel wreath with musical trophies inside, with a solid flat base with a single large firing hole.
Small, oval plaque (truncated at the lower edge) of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief decoration of the Muse Urania who presided over astronomy, and often holds a compass used by astronomers in her hand, standing in full figure next to a pedestal with a globe at her feet.
Molded pearlware plate in the form of a scallop shell, painted in shades of brown, yellow, green, purple, and flesh tones with the figure of a winged putti reclining in a landscape with billowing yellow drapery behind him and a fruiting grapevine on the ground in front of him, edged in mustard-yellow.
Miniature vase of matte black basalt in the shape of the the two-handled amphora-shaped Portland Vase, but without the relief decoration and with a variation in the handle form.