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Factory:
Wedgwood & Bentley
Etcher:
Vien, Marie Thérèse
(After)
Solid agate body, with cream-coloured handles bearing remnants of gilding; white marble plinth. Shape 1. Ovoid with pronounced shoulder, incurved neck with projecting ring round the top. On each side of the shoulder there is a satyr's head with long horns rising up to form handles and curving over to join the projecting rim. The vase is supported on a narrow circular foot with a short stem. The hole in the base for the attachment of the rod and nut has been filled in with a white composition.
History note: Unknown before testator
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 12.9 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 (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Late 18th century
George III
Circa
1769
-
1773
This form was no. 1 in the Wedgwood Shape Book. It was based on an etching by Marie-Therèse Reboul Vien (1729-1805), plate 13 in Suite de Vases composée dans le Goût de l'Antique, Paris, 1760, after designs by her husband, the painter Joseph Marie Vien (1716-1809).Gilding was not continued by Wedgwood for very long. Already on 6 February 1769 he wrote from London to Bentley in Burslem (MS E25-18227) on the subject of stopping
Handles
composed of
gilt
( remnants)
cream-coloured earthenware
Body
composed of
agateware
( solid)
Plinth
composed of
white marble
Accession number: C.659 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 11648
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Vase" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11648 Accessed: 2022-10-03 21:43:27
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