Vegetable Dish

Wedgwood

  • Titles Vegetable Dish (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium Queen's ware
  • Dimensions 2 11/16 x 14 1/4 x 7 13/16 in. (6.8 x 36.2 x 19.8 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.515.2012
  • Work Type vegetable dish
  • Classification Containers

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Small rectangular tray of enameled buff-colored caneware, the interior sides are decorated with a narrow black band all the way around above a red dot and dash pattern, around the edge of the well is a light blue band with green bellflower motifs, in the center is a red triangular motif with a Greek key pattern around the edges and a black urn against a red ground in the middle, scattered around the central motif are various trophies and foliate elements, a pitcher and other design motifs adapted from antiquity.
Half figure seated right, the head front.
Spade-shaped blue jasper plaque with white relief putto representing Summer
Cup and saucer of solid white jasper with applied green, lilac and white jasper relief decoration, the cup of cylindrical shape with a band of green acanthus leaves around the bottom, the main body with garlands of green ivy leaves with lilac berries and small medallions suspended from the joinings of the garlands, each lilac medallion with a small white flying cupid in relief, with a leafy vine running around the top of the cup below the lip, with leaf-molded handle, the saucer with like garlands around the rim and a band of acanthus leaves around the inner well.