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A Sacrifice
Factory:
Wedgwood
Modeller:
Hackwood, William
(Probably)
Pale blue jasper rectangular plaque with applied white reliefs, combining and adapting figures from Sacrifice to Bacchus and Offering to Flora.
Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009
Depth: 5 cm
Height: 25.5 cm
Height: 25 cm
Length: 66.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2009) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
19th Century, Late
Circa
1860
-
1900
This plaque was probably made in the late 19th century. The reliefs were first used on two jasper plaques made during the Wedgwood & Bentley period, about 1778. See Documentation, Reilly 1989, I), a Sacrifice to Bacchus which includes all but the two figures on the left, although the woman with a ewer has a different head; and an Offering to Flora, for the standing and seated female figures on the left. The figures were derived from casts taken from casts of classical reliefs belonging to Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury Hall, near Nuneaton, which Wedgwood acquired in 1777. The earliest plaques were not solid 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.
Reliefs composed of jasper ( white)
pale blue Jasper
Accession number: C.112-2010
Primary reference Number: 177533
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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