Factory: Wedgwood
White jasper (rather chalky in texture) with black jasper dip, and white moulded and applied reliefs. The cylindrical cup has a plain loop handle. The circular saucer has shallow curved sides and stands on a rootring. The exterior of the cup is decorated with four swags depending from the horns of four ram’s heads,with ribbons on either side and hanging down between the swags. Within each swag there is an oval frame enclosing different motifs: two putti with a goat; a lyre and laurel wreath; Bacchus in a chariot drawn by felines; and an open book, pen, and laurel wreath hanging from a ribbon. Below there is a border of repeating stylized plants in arched outlines, and above a border of slanting S scrolls. The saucer is decorated with ten swags and ten ram’s heads beside the rim. The swags enclose alternately pendant trophies or an oval outline enclosing a neoclassical motifs: Cupid riding on a dolphin. Bacchus in a chariot drawn by felines, two putti with a goat, and a putto riding a hippocamp. Below the swags is a circle of sloping S scrolls.
History note: Leo Kaplan, New York, from whom purchased on 10 December 1992 by Christopher Hogwood, CBE, (1941-2014), Cambridge; sold by the executors
From the Collection of Christopher Hogwood. Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Method of acquisition: Given (2015-04-27) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
19th Century, second quarter#
George IV
Circa
1820
CE
-
1825
CE
Black jasperware was introduced in 1796. The chalky quality of the body of this cup and saucer suggests a date in the 1820s when jasper was declining in quality
Saucer
Diameter 13.8 cm
Height 2.5 cm
Cup
Diameter 6.5 cm
Height 6.5 cm
Width 9.2 cm
Decoration
white with black dip Jasperware
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: rectangular label with rounded corners, now dark cream
Accession number: C.242 & A-2015
Primary reference Number: 201328
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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