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Case for the Erasmus Darwin Wedgwood Copy of the Portland Vase
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Title/s	Case for the Erasmus Darwin Wedgwood Copy of the Portland Vase
Maker/s	Unknown (maker)
Category	boxes (containers)
Name	case
Description	Wood, covered in red leather with stamped and gilt borders and brass handles; fitted interior lined with red velvet, edged with silver braid. Trunk-shaped. (with C.20-1984).
Production Place	England (maker) (country)
Technique Description	wood, covered in red leather with stamped and gilt borders and brass handles; fitted interior lined with red velvet, edged with silver braid
Dimensions	height: (whole): 20.4 cm width: (whole): 30.0 cm width: (whole): 22.5 cm
Period	George III
Date	circa 1789 to 1802
Provenance	bought: Darwin, George Pember 1984-04-30 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Dr Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802); Miss Emma Darwin (1784-1818); Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin MD (1786-1859); his widow (d.1866); Reginald Darwin (1818-92); Admiral Sacheverel Darwin (1844-1900); his half-second cousin, Charles Darwin's second son, Sir George Howard Darwin FRS (1845-1912); Sir Charles Galton Darwin FRS (1887-1862); George Pember Darwin, by whom lent to the Fitzwilliam in 1963.
Documentation	Dawson, Aileen (1984) Masterpieces of Wedgwood in the British Museum, London: British Museum Press [page: pp. 149-50] [comments: Ref. Only two other Wedgwood Portland Vase Copies have cases.: The 'Sneyd' blue Jasper dip vase in a private collection in New York; 'said to have been purchased from the firm by Dr John Sneyd of Belmont, Nr Leek, Staffs., on 4 Feb. 1801; he originally subscribed to the vase as recorded in Thomas Bylerley's notebook, 1789.' Sold Sotheby's, 20 October 1981, lot 109, from Sneyd family. See, p. 150, Appendix: Early copies of the Portland Vase, Compiled in association with Miss Ann Eatwell, pp. 149-50, on p. 150 Early blue Portland Vases, no. 3. The Thomas Poole vase, p. 150, Unnumbered first edition copies, no. 14.]
Other Notes
Accession Number	C.20A-1984 (Applied Arts) (Reference Number: 11618; Input Date: 2000-09-04 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)
Related Object	C.20-1984 - Erasmus Darwin's Wedgwood Copy of the Portland Vase

Case for the Erasmus Darwin Wedgwood Copy of the Portland Vase