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Vase

Vase
(1785-1790)

Medium
stoneware (white terracotta)

Measurements
20.7 × 13.1 cm diameter

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Frank Sweett, 1994

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Staffordshire, England

Inscription
impressed in base u.c: WEDGWOOD
incised (inverted) in base l.l.: K

Accession Number
D68-1994

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 mallet shape vase has floral garlands in relief on the concave column section of the body and a band of guilloche pattern enclosing rosettes around the drum-like lower part, the ornaments reserved in white against a variegated green glaze which imitates green porphyry.