cameo;
ornament
- Museum number
- 1887,0307,I.264
- Description
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Ornamental panels for mounting; white jasper stoneware, blue dip or wash, applied white moulded reliefs; oblong, slightly convex or curved, horizontal format with a Libra (scales) and a Scorpio (scorpion) on clouds in two panels divided by three acanthus with paterae devices and framed top and bottom with bead borders.
- Production date
- 1785-1800
- Dimensions
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Length: 2.80 inches
- Curator's comments
- Two similar convex-shaped cameo panels, also depicting two Signs of the Zodiac, appear mounted on the cut-steel frame with a clasp for a purse, circa 1790-1800, in the Lady Lever Art Gallery. Mounting Wedgwood cameos in cut-steel as jewellery or as ornament was developed by Matthew Boulton, but the technique also spread as faraway as Russia. The relief plaster originals for the '12 Signs of the Zodiack' were purchased in 1774 by Wedgwood and Bentley for £1.04.00, from the London plaster or mould maker, Mrs. Mary Landré (act. 1768-1774), which were resized by William Hackwood, the factory modeller, for these small cameos.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1887,0307,I.264
