Lamp
Factory Josiah Wedgwood and Sons British
Period of Josiah Wedgwood British
Decoration after a design by John Flaxman British
Not on view
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.
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