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Description: | Artist: Wedgwood, Josiah, factory - English potter 1730-1795; Date(s): circa 1787 - 1795; Classification(s): stoneware, cup and saucer, press-moulding, green jasper with applied moulded white jasper reliefs, and engine-turned decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, C.B. Marlay Bequest [MAR.C.13.1 & A-1912]
Description: Jasper, white with green dip on the exterior of the cups and the interiors of the saucers, and white reliefs; engine-turned fluting and lapidary polished rim and interior. Translucent. The cups have a frieze of reliefs between the rim and the striped engine-turning round the lower part. The saucers have a border of acanthus and laurel leaves radiating inwards from the rim, and engine-turned stripes radiating from an undecorated circle in the centre. Cup has reliefs of a putto with pipe, a dog, a butterfly, a basket of flowers, Boys at Play (putto with viol, four putti dancing), a plant, a helmet and sword with a dragonfly above. | 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: | Wedgwood, Josiah stoneware cup and saucer | Temporal: | name=late 18th century; start=1787; end=1795 | 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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