The clean, cylindrical design of Wedgwood's "Brewster" shape teawares, combined with the b...

The clean, cylindrical design of Wedgwood's "Brewster" shape teawares, combined with the black basalt body, gives this cream and sugar a very usable, contemporary sense (underscored by the practicality of the glazed interior of the creamer). By executing the body in black basalt, the processional friezes which decorate each piece seem to look ahead to the understatement of twentieth century design. 

Sprays of acanthus radiating out from the button knop on the lid of the sugar finish the composition.  

We find no published reference to this printed Etruria mark on Wedgwood basalt. Marks whic...

We find no published reference to this printed Etruria mark on Wedgwood basalt. Marks which include the Etruria notation generally date from the addition of England (1891) and cease around 1908 when "Made In" was added. The mark is similar to printed "Capri" and "Kenlock" marks from approximately the same period.

Robin Reilly in Volume II of his work on Wedgwood reproduces pages from a catalog of black basalt, circa 1914, which include a teapot, cream and sugar in this shape. Reilly notes however that all shapes shown were in production before 1900 (pp.450-451).