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| Keywords: Wedgwood - Apollo with a Zodiac Border - Walters 481971.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 circular dark blue medallion depicts the god Apollo with his lyre and tripod surrounded by a Zodiac border late Other date century 18 Neoclassical blue jasperware cm 5 08 accession number 48 1971 38919 Elisabeth Gilman Walters Art Museum Gift of Miss Elizabeth Gilman 1948 Makers Mark Wedgwood 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 Sprigged ware | ||||
