Oil lamp
attributed to Wedgwood
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1772
Materials
Basaltware
Place of origin
England
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Saltram, Devon
NT 870771.2.2
Summary
Black basaltware, the cover and stopper for one of a pair of ‘Michelangelo’ oil lamps, attributed to Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, c. 1772, unmarked. The cover gadrooned, terminating in a palmette capital with acanthus and tongue enrichment at the base. The capital surrounds a nozzle through which to pour oil; the detachable stopper in the form of a flower bud now lost.
Provenance
Accepted in part payment of death duties by HM Treasury from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker,4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to NT in 1957.
Makers and roles
attributed to Wedgwood, manufacturer
References
Ferguson 2016: Patricia F. Ferguson, Ceramics: 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2016, pp. 134-5. Mallet 1966: J. V. G.Mallet, 'Wedgwood’s early vases: the collection at Saltram House, Devon', Country Life, 9 June 1966, pp.1480-2. Montagu 1954: Jennifer Montagu, ‘A Renaissance Work Copied by Wedgwood’, Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Institute, Vol 17, 1954. 380-81.
