IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 11604 accession number: C.36-1935 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 23 May 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Jasper, solid pale blue with white reliefs and serpents. Shape 266. Ovoid with gently curving shoulders, slender neck, flaring mouth and two high scroll handles inter-twined with serpents, standing on a circular foot on a square plinth. The sides of the plinth are decorated with a row of anthemions. The foot has an acanthus border and a row of beading round the junction of the stem and body, which has a calyx of laurel leaves. The body is decorated on one side with Thetis delivering Achilles to the Centaur, and on the other, with Achilles on the back of the Centaur (Chiron) hunting a Lion. The shoulder is decorated with a laurel wreath, on the neck there is a row of elongated anthemions and a band of guilloche ornament, and on the rim, a row of beading. title: two-handled vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before Louis Colville Gray Clarke MA LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by L.C.G. Clarke MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11604 PEOPLE ------------------- Thetis Achilles centaur SUBJECTS ------------------- lion serpent acanthus anthemion laurel lion serpent acanthus anthemion laurel TECHNIQUES ---------- Jasper, solid pale blue with white reliefs and serpents moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: jasper ware DATING ------ creation date: 1788 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1788 creation date latest: 1800 culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wedgwood, Josiah maker: Pacetti, Camillo DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Base units: cm value: 9.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 34.2 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. John Flaxman, R.A. The Dictionary of Wedgwood Wedgwood, The New Illustrated Dictionary Lord Leverhulme Wedgwood Good European Ceramics, Glass and Enamels --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_36_1935_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_36_1935_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_36_1935_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_36_1935_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_36_1935_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_36_1935_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_36_1935_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_36_1935_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_36_1935_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_36_1935_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_36_1935_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_36_1935_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_36_1935_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_36_1935_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_36_1935_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_36_1935_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels