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National Museums Liverpool
Source Description:
The design was copied from a relief tablet made by Wedgwood and Bentley, listed as no.69 "The Judgement of Hercules" in their 1773 Catalogue of Ornamental Ware. At that date the tablet will have been in black basalt, but in 1778 they began making it in jasper. The tile includes even the distinctive ribbon design...
Source Description:
The design was copied from a relief tablet made by Wedgwood and Bentley, listed as no.69 "The Judgement of Hercules" in their 1773 Catalogue of Ornamental Ware. At that date the tablet will have been in black basalt, but in 1778 they began making it in jasper. The tile includes even the distinctive ribbon design of the Birmingham gilt-brass mount with which these tablets were sometimes fitted. The source of Wedgwood and Bentley's image has not yet been identified. Wedgwood tablet by courtesy of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool.
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Shape Type: Miscellaneous
Pattern Type: Literature, Classical, Mythology, and the Arts
Date: c. 1773-1790 Dimensions: - Height: 5.00 in (12.70 cm)
- Length: 5.00 in (12.70 cm)
- Width: 0.28 in (0.70 cm)
Maker: Unknown Printer: Guy Green
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware (so-called delftware) tile printed in black and painted in green by Guy Green, Liverpool, with "The Judgement of Hercules" (Anthony Ray, Liverpool Printed Tiles, 1994, no. E1-1). Hercules chooses between Virtue, who points to an arduous upward path, and Pleasure, who suggests he relax with her. It is one of a series of tiles with neoclassical subjects (either figures or...
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware (so-called delftware) tile printed in black and painted in green by Guy Green, Liverpool, with "The Judgement of Hercules" (Anthony Ray, Liverpool Printed Tiles, 1994, no. E1-1). Hercules chooses between Virtue, who points to an arduous upward path, and Pleasure, who suggests he relax with her. It is one of a series of tiles with neoclassical subjects (either figures or vases), all of which include the green enamelling as a standard part of the design. The choice of this color might be thought a whim of Guy Green's, but green was a newly fashionable color for interior decoration in the 1760s and '70s.
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