Vase

Wedgwood

1790-1810

  • Titles Vase (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium red stoneware (Rosso Antico)
  • Dimensions 13 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. Diam. (34.3 × 21.6 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.3155.2008
  • Work Type vase
  • Classification Containers

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Large bulbous potpourri vase of black basalt decorated overall with bright colored enamels in the Chinese style with chrysanthemums and other flowers, exotic foliage and a rocky ground, birds and a butterfly, with two small loop handles, the pierced cover with an acorn finial, edged in red.
Heavy, bulky bowl, shaped like a donut, of raku-fired earthenware, decorated with black and white stripes, the lip folded inward.
Chatelaine of cut steel, the large steel hook set with an octagonal medallion of solid dark blue jasper with white jasper bas relief of a standing classical figure next to a column holding a mirror in her left hand and surrounded by a stiff leaf border, on either side large, round beaded florettes of cut steel from which extend three chains united on one side by a similar round beaded element and on the other by a hook, from the beaded element extend four additional chains, two of which end in beaded tassels, one has attached a round solid blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of on one side "Hebe and the Eagle" and on the other a striding classical figure set into a seal, and the last has attached a round solid blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of on one side Hebe and the Eagle and on the other a group of classical figures at an altar set into a key; attached to the hook on the other side is a small, delicate tooled gold book with ivory leaves.
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief of Cybele in a chariot drawn by lions, in ebony frame