IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 11484 accession number: MAR.C.10-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Jasper, solid pale blue with white reliefs and serpents. Shape 266C. Ovoid body with gently curving shoulders, slender neck, flaring mouth, and two high inward scrolling handles inter-twined with serpents, standing on a short stem and circular foot, on a square plinth. The sides of the plinth are decorated with a row white anthemions. The foot has a border of acanthus foliage, and a row of beading at the junction of the stem with the body, which has a calyx of laurel leaves. The body is decorated on one side with a small child beside a standing woman who is comforting another to the left, who has a small sheep beside her and Cupid and a ewer behind her. On the extreme left and right there is a tree. On the other side, there is a woman carrying an infant, with a small child, a ewer, and a cradle on the left, and a dragonfly over head. There is a laurel wreath on the shoulder, elongated anthemions and a band of guilloche round the neck, and beading round the rim. title: two-handled vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator, Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11484 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid woman child SUBJECTS ------------------- sheep dragonfly acanthus laurel sheep dragonfly acanthus laurel TECHNIQUES ---------- jasper, solid pale blue with moulded and applied white reliefs and serpents. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: jasper ware DATING ------ creation date: 1783 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1783 creation date latest: 1800 culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wedgwood maker: Templetown, Elizabeth, Lady DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 35.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of cameos, intaglios, medals, bas-reliefs, busts, and small statutes; with a general account of tablets, vases, escritoires, and other ornamental and useful articles. The whole formed in different kinds of porcelain and terra-cotta, chiefly after the antique and the first models of modern artists. By Josiah Wedgwood FRS, potter to Her Majesty, and to His Royal Highness the Duke of York and Albany. Sold at his rooms in Greek Str., Soho, London, and at his manufactory in Staffordshire. The Selected Letters of Josiah Wedgwood Wedgwood Wedgwood, The New Illustrated Dictionary The Genius of Wedgwood Wedgwood's Oven Books Lord Leverhulme Masterpieces of Wedgwood in the British Museum Good European Ceramics, Glass and Enamels Wedgwood & Beyond. 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