• Title
  Australia Vase, 1906 / Josiah Wedgwood & Sons LTD
• Creator
  Bert Bentley
• Call number
  R 985
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 44
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1906
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  457333
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 white on blue jasper ware vase, urn-shaped, mounted to a square base and with a small lid. 2 white on green jasper ware medallion panels adorn each side - height approx. 28 cm. incl. lid; 18 cm. at widest point - small chip on vase rim
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply
• General note
  
  Known as the Australia Vase, this vase was first produced, in very limited numbers, in 1906: see "Wedgwood: the Australian Heritage", Wedgwood Australia Limited, 1987, p.17
  Undated. Date approximated from a similar vase held at DR 1
  Decorative motifs on the vase & lid include grapes, fruit, ears of wheat
  Vase handles are in the shape of ram horns
  Vase lid handle is in the shape of a crown
  Medallion panels are of Captain Cook and the "Sydney Cove Medallion"
  Further notes held at PXn 215
  Digital order no:Album ID : 954363
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Cook / Banks / Solander / Phillips [sic ie A. Phillip] -- on white band surrounding top of vase
  "Wedgwood" -- impressed on base
  "O" -- impressed on reverse (Bert Bentley's maker's mark)
• Name
  Sydney Cove medallion (pottery)
  
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  pottery
  rams
  vases
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Pieces of Wedgwood - State Library of New South Wales
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1146407

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