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Description: | Artist: Wedgwood, Josiah, factory - English potter 1730-1795; Date(s): circa 1790; Classification(s): stoneware, vase, throwing, black basalt, thrown, and painted in red and white encaustic colours; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [MAR.C.6-1912]
Description: Black basalt painted in red and white encaustic colours. Ovoid with incurved neck, wide mouth and two handles. Shape 111. Decorated on one side with a warrior carrying two spears, followed by a winged female figure. There are two red horizontal bands on the edge of the rim, anthemion motifs on the neck, a red line and white beading round the shoulder, a formal horizontal border below the figures, and a red band round the foot. The handles are decorated with red ovals separated by white dots. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | vase Wedgwood, Josiah stoneware | Temporal: | name=late 18th century; start=1790; end=1790 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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