Vases

Wedgwood

About 1930

  • Titles Vases (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (black basalt)
  • Dimensions 6 × 2 7/8 in. Diam. (15.2 × 7.3 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.160.2018.1-.2
  • Work Type vases
  • Classification Containers

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Small semi-round caneware teapot molded to look like bamboo poles bound together, with a bail handle and straight spout with molded bamboo poles in the middle, the conforming flat cover likewise molded to look like bound bamboo poles, with ball finial, the interior is glazed.
Bust in profile left.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of a laurel leaf and berry wreath with fruits suspended on tied ribbon in center on the left side of the tablet and four Dancing Hours figures on the right, all on a thin ground.
Oval box with landscape on lid.