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Vase

Vase
(c. 1888)

Medium
stoneware

Measurements
33.4 × 21.1 cm diameter

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1889

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Staffordshire, England

Inscription
impressed in base l.c.: (semicircle) / (semicircle) WEDGWOOD
incised in base l.c.: S.628

Accession Number
249-D1M

Department
International Decorative Arts

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited

Physical description
The design of leaves and flowers is executed in gilded raised paste, different shades of gold are used against a black ground. Details pale red glaze. Shape influenced by Japanese ceramics.