Vase
Gallery Location
Not on View
Maker
Wedgwood (English, est. 1759)
Medium
Black basalt with painted “encaustic” decoration; imitation of an ancient Greek vase
Geography
Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Date
c. 1780-1790
Dimensions
40.6 x 17.1 cm
Object number
928.22.10
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: Europe
Description
The scene of the three women and the borders above and below are copied from Baron d’Hancarville’s "Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Honble W.m Hamilton His Britannick [sic] Maiesty’s [sic] Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Naples", vol. 1 (Naples, 1766), plate 26. The motifs are taken from an Attic hydria in the Hamilton Collection at the British Museum.
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