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Description: | Artist: Wedgwood, factory; Date(s): circa 1785 - 1800; Classification(s): stoneware, plaque, moulding, jasper, white with blue wash on the upper surface, and moulded and applied white reliefs. Lapidary polished edges.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray, 1960, L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 [C.122A & B-1961]
Description: Jasper, white with blue wash on the upper surface, and white reliefs. Diamond shaped with lapidary polished edges. A is decorated with a Nereid riding on a sea horse with a nude sea god holding a two-pronged fork behind her and another blowing a horn in front. B is decorated with on the left a putto holding a banner standing beside a covered vase beside which is a fluted column with a ball on top, and on the right, a dog and a putto holding a censer ?. | 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: | stoneware plaque Wedgwood | Temporal: | name=late 18th century; start=1785; end=1800 | 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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