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Wedgwood

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  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium pearlware and metal
  • Dimensions 2 1/2 x 3 in .Diam. (6.4 x 7.6 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.1309.2011
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Covered, urn-shaped vase of white stoneware resting on a plain, square base of black basalt, the foot of the vase with a band of white overlapping leaves that show traces of glaze residue that adds brown highlights to the leaves, the main body covered with an opaque variegated glaze in shades of brown, green, cream and black, with two white satyr mask handles whose horns curve around to link to the lip of the vase, likewise with traces of glaze residue that serves to highlight details in the masks, with curved shoulder and long neck, the slightly domed cover with ball finial.
Molded tripod vase and reversible cover of black basalt, the vase supported by three legs with lion's masks at top, the legs and the vase body decorated with bands of various classical motifs, including acanthus leaves and fluting on the upper body and a band of fasces at the neck, the cover reverses from a domed one decorated with scrolling foliage and a sunflower finial to a lotus-shaped candle holder with acanthus-leaf motifs.