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Vase of Hydria Form
Wedgwood, Josiah
(Factory)
Black basalt painted in red and white encaustic colours. Ovoid with incurved neck, wide mouth and two handles. Shape 111. Decorated on one side with a warrior carrying two spears, followed by a winged female figure. There are two red horizontal bands on the edge of the rim, anthemion motifs on the neck, a red line and white beading round the shoulder, a formal horizontal border below the figures, and a red band round the foot. The handles are decorated with red ovals separated by white dots.
History note: Unknown before Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912)
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 28.1 cm
Width: 24.8 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1912)
by
Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Late 18th century
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1790
The decoration imitates a Greek red figure vase. Wedgwood's 'encaustic' painting was a combination of enamels and kaolin clay slip, and was one of only two techniques which he patented (no. 939), in 1769. True encaustic decoration involved the use of stained and heated waxes worked into a porous ground.
Decoration composed of encaustic paint ( red and white. . Wedgwood's 'encaustic' painting was a combination of enamels and kaolin clay slip, and was one of only two techniques which he patented (no. 939), in 1769.)
Throwing : Black basalt, thrown, and painted in red and white encaustic colours
Inscription present: with curve above and short line below
Inscription present: painted in red
Accession number: MAR.C.6-1912
Primary reference Number: 11165
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Vase of Hydria Form"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11165 Accessed: 2022-05-28 08:07:59
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