- Museum number
- P24A
P24B - Object
- Vase in the form of a lamp, Wedgwood, black basalt ware, about 1780
- Description
- Oil lamp, one of a pair (with P25), black Basalt ware with relief decoration. Formed in four parts, base, stem, bowl and lid, the base, stem and bowl screwed together with brass rod and nut. The lid is missing but see P 25 for an identical. Square base with canted corners, the frieze decorated with paterae and anthemion below a rope moulding, above the stem of the lamp is decorated with gadrooning and small flowers. The body of the lamp decorated with a formal design of relief moulded alternating acanthus leaves and stems of bell-flowers below a border of oak leaves. the top of the body has gadrooned decoration, the spout plain, and is surmounted by a female figure seated astride the aperture of the vessel, simply dressed in the classical Greek style with sandals, holding an ewer from which she appears to be pouring oil into the container.
- Materials
- Black Basalt
- Inscription
- None
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- Lighting Device
Lid - Subject
- Allegorical
- Dimensions
- framed: 23.0000cm (h) x 22.0000cm (w)
Vase in the form of a lamp
Black basalt ware, about 1780
P24
Bequest of Miss H S Hope, 1938
‘Richer and more extravagant in their shew than London’. This was how Josiah Wedgwood described the shops of Bath. He opened his own shop here in 1772 to show off his many wares. A pioneer of marketing and shop-display as much as of industrial ceramic production, Wedgwood sent twelve yards of yellow-ochre paper to Bath to show off his black basalt wares to best advantage.
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