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Vase with Mythological Subjects
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This photograph from the Minton Archives shows a vase designed by Marochetti for the firm, and shown in the Great Exhibition of 1851. It is typical of the rather ponderous renaissance-revival designs which he provided for the firm, for interpretation in terracotta, Parian Ware or the Majolica Ware, which was introduced by the firm's artistic director Leon Arnoux. The wood engraved illustration of this vase in the Art Journal's illustrated catalogue of the Great Exhibition shows the vase's other side, on which semi-naked reclining figures of Neptune and Amphitrite, lie symmetrically shoulder to shoulder. The subject of the relief represented in this photograph is 'Boreas Restrained by the Sirens'. These subjects are named in an article on ceramic exhibits at the Great Exhibition, in the Staffordshire Advertiser (7 June 1851, p.7).
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Year: |
1851 |
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Key: |
5787 |
Acc. No.: |
5787 |
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5787 |
Number of views: |
2618 |
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