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Description: | Artist: Wedgwood, Josiah, factory - English potter 1730-1795; Date(s): circa 1788 - 1800; Classification(s): stoneware, two-handled vase, moulding, Jasper, solid pale blue with white reliefs and serpents; Acquisition: given by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray, 1935-05-01 [C.36-1935]
Description: Jasper, solid pale blue with white reliefs and serpents. Shape 266. Ovoid with gently curving shoulders, slender neck, flaring mouth and two high scroll handles inter-twined with serpents, standing on a circular foot on a square plinth. The sides of the plinth are decorated with a row of anthemions. The foot has an acanthus border and a row of beading round the junction of the stem and body, which has a calyx of laurel leaves. The body is decorated on one side with Thetis delivering Achilles to the Centaur, and on the other, with Achilles on the back of the Centaur (Chiron) hunting a Lion. The shoulder is decorated with a laurel wreath, on the neck there is a row of elongated anthemions and a band of guilloche ornament, and on the rim, a row of beading. | 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 two-handled vase stoneware | Temporal: | name=George III; start=1788; 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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