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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1173
People
Wedgwood & Bentley, British (in business 1769-1780)
Title
Cupid on Swan with Arrow Upheld
Classification
Medals and Medallions
Work Type
medallion
Date
c. 1779
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229549

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black jasperware with white jasperware relief
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
6.4 x 5.5 x 1 cm (2 1/2 x 2 3/16 x 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: verso, impressed: WEDGWOOD / & BENTLEY
  • inscription: verso, graphite, handwritten: X

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. J. Lumsden Propert, London, England. [1] Arthur Sanderson, Edinburgh, Scotland. [2] [Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1910, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Notes
[1] Per Old Wedgwood Catalogue
[2] Per Old Wedgwood Catalogue

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1173
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 18, p. 16
  • Casey Monahan, "'If I offer you too much you have the remedy by declining it!:' Frederick Rathbone and the Grenville Lindall Winthrop Collection of Wedgwood at the Harvard Art Museums", Proceedings of the Sixty-Fourth Annual Wedgwood International Seminar, Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, 2019), pp. 33-43, p. 37

Exhibition History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944

Verification Level

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