Vase
ca. 1790 (made)
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Vase and cover of pale blue jasperware, with white cameo decoration. Round the middle are figures of Apollo and the nine Muses. Amphora-shaped with square plinth decorated with anthemion ornament. The shoulder is gadrooned, and the neck and foot are decorated with white beads; below the figures is a row of musical instruments. The dome-shaped cover with finial formed as Pegasus is decorated with acanthus foliage.
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Jasperware with applied relief decoration |
| Brief description | Jasperware vase and cover with Pegasus finial and with reliefs of Apollo and the Muses, made at the factory of Josiah Wedgwood, Etruria, Staffordshire, ca. 1790 |
| Physical description | Vase and cover of pale blue jasperware, with white cameo decoration. Round the middle are figures of Apollo and the nine Muses. Amphora-shaped with square plinth decorated with anthemion ornament. The shoulder is gadrooned, and the neck and foot are decorated with white beads; below the figures is a row of musical instruments. The dome-shaped cover with finial formed as Pegasus is decorated with acanthus foliage. |
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| Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
| Object history | Jermyn Street Collection. |
| Production | The reliefs combine figures from two sets of Muses supplied by John Flaxman senior in 1775. |
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| Accession number | 2416&A-1901 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2008 |
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