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Porphyry vase with cover - 1769
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Porphyry vase with cover
Made between 1769 and 1775 this porphyry vase is made from white terracotta. The porphyry surface decoration brought about by the body being sprinkled with blue, black and brown metal oxides so when fired the effect is the same as the porphyry stone. The vase has traces of gilding on its rims and handles. It stands on a black basalt plinth.
Made between 1769 and 1775 this porphyry vase is made from white terracotta. The porphyry surface decoration brought about by the body being sprinkled with blue, black and brown metal oxides so when fired the effect is the same as the porphyry stone. The vase has traces of gilding on its rims and handles. It stands on a black basalt plinth.
- Type of object: Ornamental ware/vase
- Mark: Wedgwood Bentley Etruria (On applied circular pad)
- Year first produced: 1769
- Body: White terra cotta
- Material: Ceramic
- Decoration: Porphyry, gilded
- Accession number: 163
- Dimensions: 240 mm (height), 148 mm (width, handle to handle)
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Wedgwood announced his intention of becoming, ‘Vase Maker General to the Universe' in a letter to Bentley on 1st May 1769. His vases were enormously successful when they were first shown in the London Showrooms. It was reported in May 1769 that, ‘There was no getting to the door for Coaches, nor into the rooms for Ladies and Gent.n. & ... Vases was all the cry'.
