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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 2584400, member: 50&quot;]This auction gives this background (have not verified).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/71516320_a-wedgwood-blue-jasper-tablet-circa-1860-after-the" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/71516320_a-wedgwood-blue-jasper-tablet-circa-1860-after-the" rel="nofollow">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/71516320_a-wedgwood-blue-jasper-tablet-circa-1860-after-the</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Camillo Pacetti (1758-1826) was engaged by Josiah Wedgwood in Rome from 1787 under Flaxman’s supervision. He modelled six tablets illustrating the life of Achilles in 1788. A pen and wash drawing by Pacetti of Achilles on the back of Centaur hunting a Lion is in the Wedgwood Museum&nbsp; Barlaston. The source of the design was a classical marble&nbsp; the Luna Disc&nbsp; of c. 800-400 BC in the Capitoline Museum.’ (The Fitzwilliam Museum&nbsp; Cambridge&nbsp; Object No.C.36-1935)&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]270869[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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