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Wedgwood, Josiah
(Factory)
Pale blue jasper with white reliefs
Jasper, pale blue with white reliefs. Square with slightly bombé base and sides, which have a downward scroll at each corner. On each side there is a figure in a rectangular panel: the Flora Farnese; a draped female offering at an altar; a flying, winged female holding a flower garland; a flying winged female holding a flower garland. Over each panel there is a garland of fruit, and, on each side, sprouting from the bottom of the scroll, a spray of laurel. There is a pierced tubular hole down the centre, and at the top and bottom this surrounded by four small holes some distance away from the central hole, as if at the corners of a square.
History note: Unknown before Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912)
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 14 cm
Width: 16.8 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
Circa
1785
CE
-
1795
1795
CE
The design of the relief may have been taken from Paolo Alessandro Maffei, 'Raccolta di statue antiche e moderne, data in luce . . . da Domenico de Rossi', Rome, 1704, pl. LI.
This pedestal form was supplied with a four tier tulip vase or separately priced at 31s. 6d. to be used with a snake-handled vase, shape no. 266 (see MAR.C.10-1912)
Reliefs:
Accession number: MAR.C.11-1912
Primary reference Number: 11551
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Pedestal"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11551 Accessed: 2021-12-06 21:39:55
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