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Wedgwood, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent
Covered cream vase (c. 1790)
earthenware (creamware)
(a-b) 37.6 × 33.4 × 27.4 cm (overall)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Mrs Norma Deutsher, Governor, 1994
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Covered cream vase
(c. 1790)
Medium
earthenware (creamware)
Measurements
(a-b) 37.6 × 33.4 × 27.4 cm (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Mrs Norma Deutsher, Governor, 1994
Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
This beautifully proportioned vase, with its elegantly curving profile and Greek-style handles, is executed in the fine white earthenware body known as creamware, perfected by the eighteenth-century English ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood. The vessel was intended to hold cream, and was destined for use in a fashionable pleasure dairy. The blue and brown painted bands of ‘flute and wreath’ pattern derive from Roman wall paintings and owe nothing to the decoration of a Classical vase. The white ground is also wholly eighteenth-century in conception. The vase is not a copy of an ancient ceramic but an evocation of the idea of the ‘Classical’.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Staffordshire, England
Inscription
(a) painted in brown u.c.: SL (monogram) (in a wreath)
impressed (vertically) in base l.l.: WEDGWOOD
(b) painted in brown l.c.: SL (monogram) (in a wreath)
Accession Number
D24.a-b-1994
Department
International Decorative Arts
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