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Venus in Her Chariot Drawn by Swans
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This pair of jasperware vases (with WAM 48.867) have a blue ground, and are decorated with a relief depicting the car of Venus with putti on clouds, they sit on jasper plinths. The handles are wrapped around with snakes in white. The relief of Venus in her chariot drawn by swans is after Charles Le Brun (1629-90), the French painter and principle decorative artist of the reign of Louis XIV. After many experiments Wedgwood perfected jasperware in 1775. The use of a shallow relief in white on a colored ground was inspired by ancient Roman cameo glass.
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Provenance
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George R. Harding Collection, London, until 1911; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
United Kingdom, England, Etruria, Staffordshire (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.867