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Agate cassolette - 1769
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Agate cassolette
This agate cassolette vase is made from a terracotta stoneware which has been decorated with a surface agate effect. The vase has been further decorated with applied ornamental swags. It was made between 1769 and 1775.
This agate cassolette vase is made from a terracotta stoneware which has been decorated with a surface agate effect. The vase has been further decorated with applied ornamental swags. It was made between 1769 and 1775.
- Type of object: Ornamental ware/vase
- Mark: Wedgwood & Bentley (Impressed)
- Year first produced: 1769
- Body: White terra cotta, black basalt
- Material: Ceramic
- Decoration: Blended agate
- Accession number: 176
- Dimensions: 260 mm (height), 130 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'.
