Wedgwood Dates

Wedgwood

  • Titles Wedgwood Dates (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • 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.4469.2008
  • Work Type poster
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Oval black basalt intaglio or cypher set in silver as a button
Vase of bone china in the shape of the First Day's Vase with bulbous body and small foot resting on a small square plinth, with two upright, elongated handles, the flat cover with baluster finial, the vase in the "Aesthetic style" and elaborately decorated on a white ground with two large inward curling scrolls on all four sides in shades of matte olive green, turquoise, and gold, in between are leafy swags extending from orange and gold rectangular reserves above a stylized acanthus leaf element, the lower body in matte olive green with cross hatching and parallel lines in gold, the shoulder of the vase with gold anthemion motifs against a matte olive green ground, the handles gold and the foot decorated with a band of leafy elements in orange and turquoise, a similar band runs around the side of the cover, the top of the cover and the finial in matte olive green highlighted in gold, the square base matte green on the sides and likewise highlighted in gold.
Molded, creamware tea canister of squarish shape with truncated corners, transfer-printed in black on both sides with a man with sheep in a landscape, the so-called Good Shepherd pattern, and on the other the image of a couple seated at tea in a landscape with a servant boy, the so-called Tea Party pattern, with domed lid decorated with a printed floral garland, with ball finial.
Covered urn of white jasper with green jasper dip and applied white jasper relief decoration, on round foot with overlapping acanthus leaves around the edge, the lower body with acanthus leaf motifs, the main body divided into four reserves with decorative lattice work in between, each reserve with an applied white classical vignette, including the Three Graces, Cupid as Oracle, a Sacrifice; and Nike and a Warrior, with a band of ivy leaves and ribbon just below the shoulder and with acanthus leaves around the neck and on the cover, with drop finial.