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Mural Tablet

1892 (made)
Artist/Maker
Fisher, Alexander
Ward, Victor N. (Captain)
Place of origin
England (made)

Mural tablet, enamel, composed of seventeen plaques mounted in a frame of gilt metal. On the central plaque is a long inscription. The border consists of monsters, masks, and floral arabesques in grisaille on a black ground. In the middle of each side is a circular plaque, two bearing the monogram P.H with a laurel wreath, and two decorated with a cupid holding a scroll with the word "PITTVRA".


Object details

Category
Enamels
Object type
Mural tablet
Materials and techniques
Enamel
Brief description
Mural tablet, seventeen enamel plaques in a frame of gilt metal, by Alexander Fisher and Captain Victor N. Ward, England, 1892.
Physical description
Mural tablet, enamel, composed of seventeen plaques mounted in a frame of gilt metal. On the central plaque is a long inscription. The border consists of monsters, masks, and floral arabesques in grisaille on a black ground. In the middle of each side is a circular plaque, two bearing the monogram P.H with a laurel wreath, and two decorated with a cupid holding a scroll with the word "PITTVRA".
Marks and inscriptions
  • Miss Prescott-Hewett and Mrs William Hallett daughters of the late Sir Prescott Gardiner Hewett, Bart., F.R.S., with a view to carrying out the desire frequently expressed by their father have, with the approval of his executors by indenture dated 28th August 1981, presented fifty-one water-colour drawings from his collection to the National Gallery of British Art. Each one bears the inscription 'Prescott-Hewett Gift.' These drawings are to be exhibited in the Gallery of the Department of Science and Art at South Kensington, but need not be kept apart from other pictures and works of art, and may be lent upon terms sanctioned by the Lord President of the Council to any town where there is a safe and proper place for their reception and public exhibition.
  • PH (Monogram at bottom of tablet)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
661-1892

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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