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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Chatelaine

ca. 1780-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Chatelaine of blue jasperware and cut-steel beads with a plaque and pendants. The jasper beads have white relief foliations. The pendants, which comprise of a small breloque in the form of an onyx cup, and another in the form of a stylised female head in silver, and the letter G in silver on foil covered with a heart-shaped amethyst glass crowned and set in cut-steel, hang from an octagonal blue jasper plaque with a relief in white cameo of a seated woman mourning beside a torso and helm.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Blue jasperware, silver, cut-steel beads and glass, and white relief decoration
Brief description
Chatelaine of blue jasperware and cut-steel beads with a plaque and pendants, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd., Etruria, ca. 1780-1800.
Physical description
Chatelaine of blue jasperware and cut-steel beads with a plaque and pendants. The jasper beads have white relief foliations. The pendants, which comprise of a small breloque in the form of an onyx cup, and another in the form of a stylised female head in silver, and the letter G in silver on foil covered with a heart-shaped amethyst glass crowned and set in cut-steel, hang from an octagonal blue jasper plaque with a relief in white cameo of a seated woman mourning beside a torso and helm.
Dimensions
  • Approx. length: 35cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. II 509 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:1296-1885

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Record createdMay 13, 2009
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