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Wedgwood collection mostly acquired from Charles Darwin at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Josiah Wedgwood black jasper portrait bust (1930) by Wedgwood at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Thomas Bentley (1731-80) (Wedgwood's business partner) portrait (after 1762) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Thomas Bentley (Wedgwood's business partner) black basalt profile portrait medallion ceramic (c1773) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Ceramic artist's modeling tools (c1770) owned by John Flaxman RA of Wedgwood at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood creamware mug (1761-6) with transfer printing exclusively by John Sadler & Guy Green of Liverpool at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood variegated ware vase using mixed colored clays (1769-80) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood black basalt stoneware vase in imitation of series of ancient ceramics (1770-80) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood black basalt library busts of Homer & Plato (1770-80) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood black basalt bust (1770-80) of John Locke at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood caneware teapot (1780-90) in series deigned to look like Chinese bamboo at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood yellow caneware containers plus one in cane shape made of green jasper (1790-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood blue jasper plaque showing Hercules binding Cerberus (1776-80) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper plaque showing Hercules controlling cattle (1776-80) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper plaque of peace preventing Mars from opening gates of Temple of Janus (1787) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper plaque (largest ever made) showing Diana visiting Endymion (1787) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood blue jasper plaque showing a Sacrifice to Bacchus (1780-90) originally sold to King of Naples at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood green jasper plaque showing classical domestic scenes (1780-90) by Lady Templetown at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood green jasper plaque showing classical scenes (1780-90) by Lady Templetown at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood green jasper plaques depicting Apotheosis of Homer on marble fireplace (c1787) by John Flaxman at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Collection of Wedgwood blue & green jasperware showing how designs were created to sell to women at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper flower pot (1784-90) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper bottle cooler or vase (1786-1800) by Lady Diana Beauclerk at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood green jasper teaset (1785-1800) by Emma Crewe or Lady Templetown at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood green jasper teaset (1785-1800) by Emma Crewe or Lady Templetown at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood lilac jasper teaset (1785-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper teapot (1786-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper teaset (1785-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood black & blue jasper plus black basalt cups & saucers (1782-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood black jasper teaset & tray (c1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood black jasper with blue jasper inset cameo cup & saucer (c1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Display about 1770s rage for stone vases of antiquity & how Wedgwood replicated designs using ceramics at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood terracotta stoneware vase glazed to look like stone (1770-80) copied from a book of antiquities (1646) by Stefano della Bella at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper vase showing Apollo & Nine Muses (1782-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper vases with classical themes (1783-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper jug with merman (1782-1800) copied from jugs made by Sigisbert Michel for a Paris exhibit in 1774 at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood green jasper jug with merman (1782-1800) copied from jugs made by Sigisbert Michel for a Paris exhibit in 1774 at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood black basalt Grecian-style vase with encaustic decoration (1785) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood black jasperware Portland vase (c1790) copied by Henry Webber from ancient glass original at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood black jasperware Portland vase (c1790) copied by Henry Webber from ancient glass original at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood black jasperware Portland vase elements (c1790) created as practice for production at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood black jasper vase with classical gods (1796-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Earthenware wedding Lebes Gamikos vase (350-325 BCE) from Campania, Southern Italy at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Earthenware Situla with Dionysus, Ariadne & Eros vase (350-300 BCE) from Ruvo, Southern Italy at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Earthenware Pelike Apollo, Muses & Eros vase (325-300 BCE) from Apulia, Southern Italy at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Display of special Wedgwood pieces (1770-1810) that company had in its showrooms at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper plaques mounted as brooches or pendants in steel or other metal (1780-1810) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper plaques mounted as buttons or pendants (1780-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood jasper cameos & intaglios (1780-1800) surrounding actual Roman examples which inspired Wedgwood (white area #6,7,8) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper head of Medusa (c1776) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood jasper boxes (1780-1800) for sewing, scents, toothpicks, seals, gaming tokens, patches & snuff at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood jasper plaques on boxes of gold, ivory, etc. (1783-1805) for carrying patches or snuff at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood jasper plaque on gold snuff box (1800-1820) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood jasper scent bottles with gold caps (1790-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood jasper candlesticks (1785-90) & white jasper coffeepot (c1860) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper stand (1786-1800) to hold mechanism for Argand oil lamp which gave brighter light than regular oil lamps at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood black basalt oil lamp (1780-1800) & blue jasper oil lamp (1785-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood green jasper oil lamp (1791-3) & black basalt oil lamp (1775-1780) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood jasper statuettes of Mercury & Jupiter (1783-86) & blue jasper cream bowl (1787-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper wine glass rinser (1787-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood blue jasper butter dish (1780-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper dessert basket (c1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood blue jasper pair of glaciers (1787-1800) & croquant (c1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood green jasper vase (c1860) & blue jasper vase (c1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood blue, black & lilac jasper vases (1770-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood terracotta stoneware & black slip flower basket (1780-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood lilac jasper vase (1790-1800) & 2 black jasper spill vases (to hold twisted slips of paper to transfer fire from say burning log to candle or pipe) (1790-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood lilac jasper flowerpot (c1802) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Wedgwood black basalt & brass Greek griffin candlesticks (1780-1800) designed by Sir William chamber at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood white & blue jasper neo-classical Sphinx (1782-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood redware neo-Egyptian sugar dish with crocodile on cover (1800-1820) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Samuel More (Secretary to Royal Society of Arts) portrait medallion of Wedgwood white jasper (1773-80) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Erasmus Darwin (physician scientist) portrait medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper (1780) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Australian history Wedgwood jasper medallions of Captain James Cook (1776-80), Daniel Solander (1775-80) & Sydney Cove (1790) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Isaac Newton portrait medallion of Wedgwood black basalt (c1773) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Isaac Newton portrait medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper (c1779) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Carl Linnaeus portrait medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper (c1777) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Joseph Priestly portrait medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper (c1779) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Voltaire portrait medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper (c1778) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | William Pitt portrait medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper (c1778) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Richard Howe portrait medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper (c1798) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Horatio Nelson portrait medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper (c1798) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Collection of Wedgwood blue jasper portrait medallions (1780s & 90s) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Louis XVI portrait medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper (1785-95) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Marie Antoinette portrait medallions of Wedgwood blue jasper (1785-95) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette portrait medallions of Wedgwood blue jasper (1785) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Philippe Egalité, Duc d'Orléans portrait medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper (1790-1800) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | French Revolution medallion of Wedgwood blue jasper (1789) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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French Revolution snuff box of Wedgwood blue jasper on porphyry & gold (1789) at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Wedgwood anti-slavery medallion (1787) given away free by abolitionist movement at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | George Stubbs self portrait painted on fired enamel tablet made by Wedgwood at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Frightened Horse blue jasper medallion relief (1780-85) by George Stubbs for Wedgwood at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |
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Fall of Phaethon blue jasper medallion relief (1781-85) by George Stubbs for Wedgwood at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Haymakers painted in enamels on Wedgwood fired tablet (1794) by George Stubbs at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Haycarting painted in enamels on Wedgwood fired tablet (1795) by George Stubbs at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. | Farmer's Wife & the Raven painted in enamels on Wedgwood fired tablet (1782) by George Stubbs at Lady Lever Art Gallery. Liverpool, England. |