Veilleuse Stand

Wedgwood

  • Titles Veilleuse Stand (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware
  • Dimensions 6 x 8 1/4 x 5 in. (15.2 x 21 x 12.7 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.1158.2011
  • Work Type warmer stand
  • Classification Containers

See More of the Collection

Small, footed waste bowl of white stoneware with applied arabesques of scrollwork, flowers and foliage around the body against a stippled ground, the interior covered with a lead glaze.
Tricolor jasper barber bottle, the main body of solid white jasper with yellow and black jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, the bottle on round foot with band of overlapping acanthus leaves, the body with stiff leaf motifs that extend upward from the stem, with four large molded masks of Bacchus at the shoulder atop a band of laurel leaves and berries that extends around the entire shoulder, the masks above garlands of leafy grape vines with bunches of grapes, on each of four sides a small roundel of blue jasper with allegories of the seasons in the form of cupids with the relevant seasonal attributes, surrounded by a white border, the long narrow neck with floral garlands held by small ram's heads below a band of beading, with a band of crossed ribbons at the lip, the conforming cover with stiff leaf motifs and ball finial.
Plaque with six of the twelve figures from the Kreuzberg Monument in Berlin.
Stand for a cheese dome, on raised foot, of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration of a border of oak leaves and acorns between two white bands, the white jasper discolored and the stand is missing its cheese dome.