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| Keywords: Wedgwood - Scent Bottle with Mythological Scenes - Walters 481570.jpg In 1774 Josiah Wedgwood 1730-95 introduced the unglazed jasperware with white relief decoration on pastel or black backgrounds for which the firm became famous The technique was used for ornamental cameos that appealed to the late 18th-century passion for ancient cameos and intaglios This scent bottle is decorated with a young couple in front of an elderly seated woman and on the other side with two women making an offering on an alter of Love Eros is hiding behind a mask on the alter and stretches out his hand to receive the offerings The metal cap of the scent bottle has a loop so it could be worn late Other date century 18 Neoclassical blue jasperware gold cm 8 89 accession number 48 1570 18921 George Robinson Harding Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 Bedazzled 5 000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2006-2009 Bedazzled 5 000 Years of Jewelry El Paso Museum of Art El Paso 2010 place of origin Stoke-on-Trent England United Kingdom Walters Art Museum license Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Jasperware Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Blue bottles Sprigged ware | ||||
