Vase with Nine Muses and Apollo

Unknown (British)

Wedgwood (English ceramics manufactory, 1759 to the present)


Item type:
decorative art
Date of creation:
1790
Height:
23.5 cm  (9 1/4 in.)
Width:
17.5 cm  (6 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
jasperware pottery

Additional titles

Apollo and Muses

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    The Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection of Old Wedgwood[Museum inv. no.: 1912.1279]

Description

Apollo is leaning on a lyre. Four of the Muses play or hold instruments: a double wind instrument, a harp, a lyre, and a small trumpet. In the decorative band around the vase are medallions that show music books as well as the following instruments: cello, trumpet, lyre, harp, trumpet, sistrum, double wind instrument, lute, and two wind instruments.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Aerophone [4310]
Lyre [3501]
Trumpet [4446]
Sistrum [3042]
Lute [3394]
Violoncello [3582]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 8 (166da82). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1984