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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 Ms Carol Grigor 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.