Commemorative Dish

Wedgwood

About 1970

  • Titles Commemorative Dish (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium stoneware (jasperware)
  • Dimensions 4 5/16 × 4 5/16 in. (11 × 11 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.1116.2008
  • Work Type dish
  • Classification Containers

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Wedgwood floral brooch featuring a bone china flower on a metal mount
Vase, Designed by David Puxley, Wedgwood, stoneware (black basalt)
Small asparagus shell of white soft-paste porcelain with low vertical, scalloped sides that taper towards one end, open at both ends to allow bundles of asparagus spears to be contained inside, the interior printed sideways in underglaze blue in the "Fisherman" or "Pleasure Boat" pattern, above and below the printed scene and on the interior and exterior sides a border of small blue square elements with a white dot in the middle above a repeating C-scroll and dot pattern.
Octagonal brooch or buckle comprised of a dark blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief of Coriolanus – Coriolanus with his wife and mother who entreat him to return to Rome – in a cut-steel mount of faceted steel beads set in circles with an outer band of smaller faceted steel beads.