Wine Ewer

Wedgwood

  • Titles Wine Ewer (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium gilded and bronzed black basalt
  • Dimensions 16 x 7 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (40.6 x 19.1 x 16.5 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.553.2011
  • Work Type ewer
  • Classification Containers

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Bust in profile left.
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Earthenware vase in the Art Deco style covered completely with a mint green matte glaze, the body embossed in the round with a pattern of stylized flowers, foliage, and insects, the long, extended lip flared outward.