A Sacrifice: C.112-2010

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Titles

A Sacrifice

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood
Modeller: Hackwood, William (Probably)

Entities

Description

Pale blue jasper rectangular plaque with applied white reliefs, combining and adapting figures from Sacrifice to Bacchus and Offering to Flora.

Legal notes

Dr Milo Keynes Bequest, 2009

Measurements and weight

Depth: 5 cm
Height: 25.5 cm
Height: 25 cm
Length: 66.5 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

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.

Place(s) associated

Etruria ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Late 19th Century
Circa 1860 - 1900

Note

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.

School or Style

Neoclassical

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Reliefs composed of jasper ( white)

Materials used in production

pale blue Jasper

Inscription or legends present

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

References and bibliographic entries

Decorative Wedgwood in Architecture and Furniture page(s): 60
Wedgwood page(s): 595, 592

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.112-2010
Primary reference Number: 177533
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 21 June 2017

Associated departments & institutions

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

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