flower pot and saucer

Josiah Wedgwood, 1780 - 1836



flower pot and saucer

Josiah Wedgwood 1780 - 1836

Summary

Tapered cylindrical flower pot with circular hole in base, flaring wide to everted rim, decorated with white relief acanthus border. Sides decorated with engine-turned dice pattern (blue body shaved in squares to leave plain and textured blue chequered pattern, plain squares then decorated with alternating groups of four white relief quatrefoils and four white relief beads) surmounted by white relief anthemion border. White relief cable rope round base. Flat circular saucer with steep sloping sides, everted rim and applied footrim. Sides decorated with border of repeated simple leaves in white relief.


Object Name

flower pot and saucer

Creators Name

Josiah Wedgwood

Date Created

c 1785

accession number

1917.370/2

Place of creation

Etruria

Medium

Credit

Leicester Collier Bequest


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