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Vase of Hydria Form: MAR.C.6-1912

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Object information

Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Titles

Vase of Hydria Form

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood, Josiah

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Description

Black basalt painted in red and white encaustic colours. Ovoid with incurved neck, wide mouth and two handles. Shape 111. Decorated on one side with a warrior carrying two spears, followed by a winged female figure. There are two red horizontal bands on the edge of the rim, anthemion motifs on the neck, a red line and white beading round the shoulder, a formal horizontal border below the figures, and a red band round the foot. The handles are decorated with red ovals separated by white dots.

Notes

History note: Unknown before Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912)

Legal notes

C.B. Marlay Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 28.1 cm
Width: 24.8 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Etruria ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

18th Century, Late
George III
Production date: circa AD 1790

Note

The decoration imitates a Greek red figure vase. Wedgwood's 'encaustic' painting was a combination of enamels and kaolin clay slip, and was one of only two techniques which he patented (no. 939), in 1769. True encaustic decoration involved the use of stained and heated waxes worked into a porous ground.

School or Style

Neoclassical

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of encaustic paint ( red and white. . Wedgwood's 'encaustic' painting was a combination of enamels and kaolin clay slip, and was one of only two techniques which he patented (no. 939), in 1769.)

Materials used in production

Black basalt

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Black basalt, thrown, and painted in red and white encaustic colours

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: with curve above and short line below

  • Text: WEDGWOOD
  • Location: On the base
  • Method of creation: Impressed
  • Type: Factory mark
  • Text: 943
  • Location: On the base
  • Method of creation: Incised
  • Type: Mark

Inscription present: painted in red

  • Text: S
  • Location: On the base
  • Method of creation: Painted
  • Type: Mark

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Identification numbers

Accession number: MAR.C.6-1912
Primary reference Number: 11165
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 1 October 2019 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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