Domestic Employment

late 18th century (Neoclassical) H: 10 11/16 in. (27.2 cm) Citation Source image

This vase has a light blue ground and is decorated with a relief in white known as domestic employment after designs by Lady Elizabeth Templetown. After many experiments Wedgwood perfected jasperware in 1775. The use of a shallow relief in white on a colored ground was inspire...

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17994
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George R. Harding Collection, until 1911; Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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