IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71113 accession number: C.10 & A-1986 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 4 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White jasper ware with relief decoration in blue and black standing on a polished black jasper base. Tapering oval body with short neck and two upward scroll handles, fluted and with leafage at junction with the body; separately moulded slender stem spreading to circular foot set on octagonal base and attached to the body with a central bolt; domed cover with cone-shaped finial. The main field is decorated with a blue relief on each side: in one, Galatea (or Venus) stands in a shell drawn over the sea by two dolphins and accompanied by Cupid on a dolphin, a butterfly and a dragonfly; the other has a nymph in billowing drapery and Cupid on an eagle, above the clouds. Below there is a band of black guilloche and blue stiff leaves rising from a band of black beading at the junction of the stem and body; above there is a band of black Greek key pattern and on the shoulder, blue flower heads. The neck is decorated with blue leaves and black beadwork and the foot with black flower heads and blue acanthus-like leaves. The cover is decorated with blue stiff leaves radiating from blue beading, and the finial with black stiff leaves. object type: Two-handled white jasper ware vase and cover with relief decoration in blue and black set on polished black jasper base. Decorated on one side with Galatea or Venus standing in a shell chariot drawn by dolphins and accompanied by Cupid on a dolphin, and on the other, with a nymph and Cupid on an eagle. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Winifred Williams (Robert Williams), 3 Bury Street, London, SW1 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Rylands Fund. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71113 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- dolphin butterfly dragonfly eagle dolphin butterfly dragonfly eagle CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: dry-bodied stoneware category: jasper ware DATING ------ creation date: 1785 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1795 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Turner and Abbott maker: William & John Turner DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 28.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum Master Potters of the Industrial Revolution, The Turners of Lane End Wedgwood Specialities, 25th Anniversary of the Wedgwood Society of New York Whose Body? English Dry-bodied Stoneware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_10_20_26_20A_1986_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_10_20_26_20A_1986_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_10_20_26_20A_1986_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_10_20_26_20A_1986_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_10_20_26_20A_1986_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_10_20_26_20A_1986_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_10_20_26_20A_1986_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_10_20_26_20A_1986_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels