IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 11147 accession number: MAR.C.1A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Black basalt, moulded. Of antique ewer form standing on square plinth. The ewer for water (A) has with a triton holding the neck, a dolphin's head on the shoulder at the front, and on each side, a swag of aquatic leaves.The plinth is decorated with panels of interlacing branches. The plinth, foot and vase is held together by a rod, disk, and nut. title: ewer NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator, Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11147 PEOPLE ------------------- Triton SUBJECTS ------------------- dolphin branches leaves dolphin branches leaves TECHNIQUES ---------- the plinth, foot and vase is held together by a rod, disk and nut moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wedgwood maker: Flaxman, John, Sr. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Base units: cm value: 11.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 40 CITATIONS -------- Wallace Collection Catalogues, Furniture Musée Nissim de Camondo Wedgwood Ware Masterpieces of Wedgwood in the British Museum Important Silver and Gold Objects of Vertu and Miniatures, 27th March 1985 Wedgwood & Beyond. English Ceramics from the Starr Collection European Ceramics at Burghley House The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood Collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art The Genius of Wedgwood Bel Ameublement et Orfèvrerie Européenne, 24th June 2000 Empire, Mobilier, Objets d'Art, Tableaux, Livres et Manuscrits --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/MAR_C_1A_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_MAR_C_1A_1912_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/MAR_C_1A_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_MAR_C_1A_1912_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/MAR_C_1A_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_MAR_C_1A_1912_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/MAR_C_1A_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_MAR_C_1A_1912_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels