IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131310 accession number: C.28-2006 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The vase has a trumpet-shaped bowl, supported on a hollow cylindrical stem rising in a gentle concave curve from a circular foot with a straight edge. A relief on one side has Btitannia holding a trident; facing her is the winged figure of Fame inscribing the names ‘NELSON’ and ‘HOWE’ on a tablet which rests against an obelisk, she holds a trumpet in her other hand. On the other side is a relief of a classical female figure with a cap on a pole (France ?) facing towards two female figures and a man on the right. To the left of the first group there is a butterfly above a low shrub, and on the right of the relief, a small bird over above a low shrub. A band of twelve flower heads with pointed petals runs under the rim and a classical floral border sits under the main reliefs. The top of the foot is decorated with nine palmettes and the edge has three horizontal engine-turned bands. The underside has a slight foot-rim; a central vent hole leads through to the stem. object type: Off-white stoneware with chocolate-brown slip background and applied moulded borders and reliefs, smear-glazed. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Mr Derek Taylor, OBE LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131310 PEOPLE ------------------- Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Howe, Richard, Earl (1726-99) Fame Britannia France SUBJECTS ------------------- obelisk obelisk TECHNIQUES ---------- white stoneware with applied sprig reliefs on chocolate-brown slip ground, smear-glazed moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: feldspathic stoneware category: sprigged stoneware category: smear-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1805 - 1815 creation date earliest: 1805 creation date latest: 1815 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Chetham & Woolley DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.2 CITATIONS -------- Chetham & Woolley Stonewares 1793-1821 English Dry-bodied Stoneware, Wedgwood and Contemporary Manufacturers 1774-1830 Orpheus and the Muse ---