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Zephyr

Wedgwood

About 1800

  • Titles Zephyr (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions 1 15/16 × 1 9/16 × 1/8 in. (5 × 4 × 0.3 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.1781.2008
  • Work Type cameo
  • Classification Medals

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Small, delicate cream jug molded at the base with a pair of recumbent goats resting on a green and brown grassy ground and flanking a tree upon which rests a large black and yellow bumble bee, the pear-shaped body of the jug decorated in colorful enamels in shades of green, yellow, blue, brown, and black with leaves, flowers, and two large butterflies, the slender, curved handle disguised with brown and green enamel as a leafy branch with bocage leaves at the top, the lip of the jug rimmed with brown enamel.
Vase of reddish-brown stoneware, the chunky body resting on three square feet, the neck short, the lip slightly flared, with three rings extending from lip to shoulder, the body with molded decoration in relief with on one side the image of a man, or warrior, on his knees, his knife drawn and raised in his right hand, his left arm outstretched, on the other a pouncing lion in a landscape, perhaps referring to the story of Hercules and the Nemean lion, the vase is covered with a thick, opaque, turquoise glaze with darker blue streaks over a white glaze, the foot mostly white.
Shallow bowl of creamy beige stoneware with a wide rim that is decorated with a stylized leafy pattern, covered with an opaque greenish glaze that varies in shades from light to dark and is flecked brown throughout, occasionally allowing the clay body to show through.
Three-part pie dish of buff-colored caneware, oval in shape and with a liner with rouletted edge to resemble a pastry crust and a molded cover with decorative lattice elements and acanthus leaves, with an oval finial in the form of a small pastry dish with crust edge, the interior of the dish is glazed.