cameo
- Museum number
- 1887,0307,I.229
- Description
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Double-sided ornamental cameo; jasper; solid white stoneware; round; applied with relief-moulded sprig of Cupid sacrificing; and the obverse with Saturn (Time or Cronos) seated holding his scythe on a washed green ground within a bead-and-radiating-leaf frame, edged with a washed lilac ground border, grooved edge.
- Production date
- circa 1790
- Dimensions
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Length: 0.50 - 1 inches (max)
- Curator's comments
- For the source used for Saturn or Time see no. 765 in the Tassie and Raspe 1791 catalogue, proposed as follows: 'Saturn sitting upon the prow of a ship, upon which is a small chapel; to mark, according to the ideas of the Romans, that he came to Italy by sea, and introduced architecture'. Based on a 'Cornelian' in the 'Flor. Cab.?' (A.F. Gori, Gemmae antiquae ex thesauro Mediceo et privatorum Dactyliothecis Florentiae (Florence 1731)?) (cited in P.D. Lippert's Dactyliotheca, I, no. 2). Wedgwood's modeller has removed the details of the ship and the chapel.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1887,0307,I.229