Josiah Wedgwood and the Portland Vase Josiah Wedgwood and the Portland Vase , What would we do with out the two and a chapter in Neoclassicism in History of the Decorative Arts ? Many collectors are NOT aware the Work in Jasper ware is a re Creation of the Roman Cameo Glass Vase from the 3 rd Duke of Portland ....( a noted gambler his day ...Financially Challenged I The 3rd Duke lent the vase to Josiah Wedgwood, who had already had it described to him as the finest production of Art that has been brought to England and seems to be the very apex of perfection to which you are endeavoring by the sculptor John Flaxman. Wedgwood devoted four years of painstaking trials at duplicating the vase - not in glass but in black and white jasper ware. He had problems with his copies ranging from cracking and blistering (clearly visible on the example at the Victoria and Albert Museum) to the reliefs lifting during the firing, and in 1786 he feared that he could never apply the Jasper relief thinly enough to match the glass originals subtlety and delicacy. He finally managed to perfect it in 1790, with the issue of the first-edition of copies (with some of this edition, including the V&A one, copying the cameos delicacy by a combination of undercutting and shading the reliefs in grey), and it marks his last major achievement. For the past 200 plus years faithful adaptation of the work has been produce in various sizes , Porland blue, Wedgwood Blue and others . For the Collector a fine example can be found on the secondary Art and Antique Market . Examples may be seen at ; https://etsy/listing/175681603/early-smaller-wedgwood-blue-portland?ref=sr_gallery_5&ga_search_query=portland+vase&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all James Louis Stow House of Stow Fine Arts 1+305 756 9514
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:17:28 +0000
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