Vase
Wedgwood
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1790
Materials
Ceramics, black basalt (stoneware)
Measurements
178 mm (Height); 105 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Stoke-on-Trent
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730553.2
Summary
Vase, one of a pair, black basalt (stoneware), Wedgwood, Staffordshire, circa 1790. Of vase shape with a beaded band at rim, curved shoulders applied with an oak leaf swag suspended from rings, above fluted sides and raised on a square plinth. Unmarked.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust along with Stourhead House, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Makers and roles
Wedgwood, manufacturer