Vases

Wedgwood

  • Titles Vases (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions each: 2 1/4 x 2 in. Diam. (5.7 x 5.1 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.738.2012.1-.2
  • Work Type vases
  • Classification Containers

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A Man Making a Vase, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Small, delicate cream jug molded at the base with a pair of recumbent goats resting on a green and brown grassy ground and flanking a tree upon which rests a large black and yellow bumble bee, the pear-shaped body of the jug decorated in colorful enamels in shades of green, yellow, blue, brown, and black with leaves, flowers, and two large butterflies, the slender, curved handle disguised with brown and green enamel as a leafy branch with bocage leaves at the top, the lip of the jug rimmed with brown enamel.
Head in profile left in decorative cast-iron frame.
Figure modeled after the statuette of Vischer on the Sebaldus Tomb in the Church of St. Sebald in Nuremberg.