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A Sacrifice: C.110-2010

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

A Sacrifice

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood

Entities

Categories

Description

Pale blue jasper with applied white reliefs, combining figures and adapted figures from two earlier plaques of 'Sacrifice to Bacchus' and 'Offering to Flora'.

Pale blue jasper rectangular plaque with applied white reliefs.

Notes

History note: By descent in the family

Legal notes

Dr Milo Keynes Bequest

Place(s) associated

  • Etruria ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.

Dating

18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa 1790 - 1810

Note

The figures are taken from two plaques first made during the Wedgwood & Bentley period, about 1778 (See Documentation, Reilly, 1989). 'Sacrifice to Bacchus' which includes all but the two figures on the left, although the woman with a ewer has a different head; and p. 592, no. 861, 'An Offering to Flora', for the standing and seated female figures on the left. These early plaques were not sold blue jasper but were grey-blue with a slightly darker blue jasper surface, and had a series of holes on the back behind the figures.

School or Style

Neoclassical

Components of the work

Reliefs

Materials used in production

pale blue and white Jasper ware

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: WEDGWOOD
  • Location: On back
  • Method of creation: Impressed
  • Type: Factory mark

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.110-2010
Primary reference Number: 176724
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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