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Factory: Wedgwood
Two plaques. Jasper, white with blue wash and white reliefs. Three straight sides and one slightly curved side; the backs have been ground smooth. A is decorated with a woman seated beside a draped table on which a swan or eagle is drinking from a bowl; behind the woman is a small tree. B is decorated on the left with a small tree and a nude man approaching a draped nude woman standing in front of a rock (Perseus and Andromeda?).
History note: Unknown before testator
Bequeathed by Louis Colville Gray Clarke
Height: 1.7 cm
Width: 2.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1785
-
1800
Josiah Wedgwood I or Wedgwood & Byerley
Reliefs
Accession number: C.123A & B-1961
Primary reference Number: 11473
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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