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Lamp with Vestal Reading
Factory:
Wedgwood
Designer:
Saint-Non, Jean Claude Richard de
(After)
Modeller:
Tebo
Black basalt, moulded in the form of a lamp standing on a square plinth with cut corners. The parts are held together by a rod and a brass disk and circular nut. The vestal reading is seated on the opposite end to the spout, and the top has a small oval cover
History note: Unknown before testator
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 23.8 cm
Length: 24 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Mid#
Circa
1800
-
1850
In the Wedgwood Shape Book (54.30019), no. 216 is described as 'the lamp with the figure with Book'. It also appears in the Shape Book with 1794 water-mark rebound in 1916. It was made in 9½ in and 1 in sizes. This lamp and its pair are probably nineteenth century copies of the lamps made during the Wedgwood and Bentley period.
The shapes of this lamp and the lamp decorated with a vestal filling a lamp were based on designs by Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non (1729-91). They were modelled by Tebo. Josiah Wedgwood wrote to Bentley in London on 5th November, 1774, `Mr Tebo, our new modeller, did not return here of some days after me, I am glad he did not for he would have made a shocking ugly thing of the lamp, if he had been left to himself.' (MS E.25-18561) On the 16th he wrote again, 'Mr Tebo is modelling the two lamps from St. Non but goes on very slowly'(MS E.25-18564).
Moulding : Black basalt, moulded. The parts are held together by a rod and a brass disk and circular nut
Accession number: MAR.C.4 & A-1912
Primary reference Number: 11163
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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