Lamp

Josiah Wedgwood and Sons|Josiah Wedgwood|John Flaxman

ca. 1780–1800 · Caneware · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This vessel, in which an ancient oil lamp has been adapted, combines Josiah Wedgwood's pale can-colored ware with a relief in tawny jasperware, in imitation of ancient glyptic contrasts. The relief on the lid illustrates three Muses watering Pegasus, after a painting in the Tomb of the Nasonii outside Rome.

Artist

Josiah Wedgwood and Sons|Josiah Wedgwood|John Flaxman

Date

ca. 1780–1800

Medium

Caneware

Culture

British, Etruria, Staffordshire

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1911