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Wine cooler
(c. 1790)
- Medium
- stoneware (green and yellow jasper)
- Measurements
- 26.3 × 28.3 × 23.2 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Staffordshire, England
- Inscription
- impressed (vertically) in base c.l.: WEDGWOOD
- Accession Number
- D13-1993
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Mr Keith M. Deutsher, Founder Benefactor, 1993
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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This barrel-shaped wine cooler is decorated with a frieze of male and female banqueters reclining in the ancient manner of a symposium or drinking party. The figures are set in a central band between areas of dice pattern with cane yellow quatrefoils in the white squares. The ‘Banqueters’ design was prepared for Wedgwood by Guiseppe Angelini in Rome in 1789. It was modelled after the Sarcophagus of the Muses, formerly in the Albani collection and the Capitoline Museum, now in the Louvre, Paris.
- Physical description
- Barrel shaped vessel with swan-neck handles terminating in spreading wings, decorated with a band of male and female figures in the antique manner.
