bust

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Object Type
Museum number: 1887,0307,I.718.a
Description: Bust; jasper ware, white with blue pedestal; Mars; tall stand of square section tapering downwards, washed with blue and ornamented on three sides with applied white reliefs of trophies suspended from a ribbon.
Producer name
Production date: 1785 (circa)
Production place: Factory in: Etruria (England)
Materials
Ware
Technique: washed; applied; relief
Dimensions: Height: 5.90 inches
Curator's comments: These busts are rare. They may have been based on Continental examples in porcelain intended for table decoration.
Bibliographic references: Hobson 1903 / Catalogue of the collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquites and Ethnography of the British Museum (I718); Dawson 1984 / Masterpieces of Wedgwood in the British Museum (p. 58, fig. 45); Reilly 1989 / Wedgwood (I, p. 633, fig. 955)
Location: On display (G47/dc4)
Subjects: myth/legend; classical deity
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1887
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1887,0307,I.718.a
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1887,0307,I.718

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