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Description: | Pair of 'Etruscan' vases, stoneware, black basalt painted with red 'encaustic' enamel decoration of Greek women. Amphora shaped vases with Etruscan scroll handles, narrow neck, and spreading foot. Foot decorated with broken border of enamel red dots at outer edge, red rim at junction with body. Main body plain black with single classical female figure in red and black enamel on one side (different on each vase), scrolling wave border below, simple arabesque above round shoulder. Tall narrow neck with inset band painted with leafy stem, flared rim with broken border of red dots around edge. Etruscan handles picked out in red, with cherub head terminals at neck rim, lion mask terminals at shoulder. One vase slightly taller than the other.
Material: ceramics
Material: stoneware
Material: black basalt
Material: encaustic
Material: enamelled
medium: stone ware - black basalt
vase by Josiah Wedgwood, c 1780, (1906.62/2). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.382 | Go to resource |
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