IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 11615 accession number: C.20-1984 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 13 March 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Jasper, solid blue-black with white reliefs. Squat ovoid body with incurved neck and everted rim, with two elbowed handles, and disk base. Decorated with two scenes separated by bearded male masks below the handles. Reading from left to right: Side 1. Two square pillars supporting an architrave, behind which is a small shrub. In front of the pillars a nude young man holding a drape behind him in his right hand, steps forward to take the arm of a partly draped woman who sits on the ground, looking back at him, and has a snake in her lap. Eros, holding a bow in his left hand and a torch in his right, flies overhead looking back to the young man. On the right, a bearded man stands in three-quarter profile to left, with his right foot on a heap of stones in front of a tree. He rests his chin on his right hand and his right elbow on his right thigh. To the right behind him there is a slender tree. Side 2. A square pillar with a capital, beside which sits a nude young man on a pile of rocks. He has a drape over his right leg, and looks to the right towards a woman, who reclines on pile of rocks in front of a tree. Her lower body is draped, and she holds a torch pointing downwards in her left hand, and has her right arm bent with the hand on her head. In front of her is a square stone with central hole and chamfered edge. On the right is a nude woman, seated on a separate pile of rocks, looking back towards the other two figures. She is partly draped, and holds a sceptre in her left hand. On the base, there is a spray of foliage above the head of a young man, in profile to right, wearing a Phrygian cap, and a cloak, and having his right forefinger to his lips. Accompanied by original fitted travelling case (C.20A-1980) object type: Portland Vase copy, blue-black jasperware with applied white reliefs; on the sides classical scenes; on the base, the head of Paris title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), Breadsall Priory, Derbyshire; Miss Emma Darwin (1784-1818); Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin MD (1786-1859); his widow, Harriet Jane, Lady Darwin (d.1866); Reginald Darwin (1818-92), Tern; Admiral Sacheverel Darwin (1844-1900), Tern; his half-second cousin, Charles Darwin's second son, Sir George Howard Darwin FRS (1845-1912), Cambridge; Sir Charles Galton Darwin FRS (1887-1862); George Pember Darwin, by whom lent to the Fitzwilliam in 1963. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought with the Cunliffe Fund, Grant-in-Aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum and a contribution from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1984 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11615 PEOPLE ------------------- Bordone, Paris TECHNIQUES ---------- solid blue-black jasper, thrown and turned, with applied press-moulded white reliefs throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1789 - 1789 creation date earliest: 1789 creation date latest: 1789 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wedgwood, Josiah DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 25.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Annual Reports of the Syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the Year ending 31 December 1975 Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain Masterpieces of Wedgwood in the British Museum The Portland Vase The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood Collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art Silver ande Plate and Collectors Items 1987 Highly Important Silver . . . 1991 Portrait miniatures, Objects of Vertu, Icons and Silver Property from the Estate of Laurance S. Rockefeller Fine British Pottery and Porcelain Wedgwood & Beyond. 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