Vases

Wedgwood

  • Titles Vases (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions each: 9 1/4 x 4 in. (23.5 x 10.2 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.818.2010.1-.2
  • Work Type vases
  • Classification Containers

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Small flower pot of solid white jasper with lilac jasper dip and applied green jasper relief decoration, with bunches of reeds at the lip and foot bound by green ribbons, the main body with vertical stripes alternating lilac and white and with straps of molded green jasper woven over and under the lilac stripes to create a basket weave effect.
Large, heavy, five-pronged silver serving fork, the prongs long and slender, the tapered bone handle dyed a soft blue green.
Oval portrait medallion of white jasper with green jasper dip and white relief decoration with the bust of Benjamin Franklin in profile left.
Oval basin of solid lilac jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration, the exterior with molded gadrooning pattern with applied white honeysuckle garlands, the edge with a dot and dash pattern with applied white aquatic plant motifs on the inside rim.