1943.1259: Trial for the Portland Vase
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.1259
- People
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Manufactured by Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
- Title
- Trial for the Portland Vase
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Foliage from the Portland Vase
Alternate Title: Study for Portland Vase: tree foliage / Trial Piece for Portland Vase - Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, relief
- Date
- 1786
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229676
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Jasperware
- Dimensions
- 6.7 x 8.7 x 0.7 cm (2 5/8 x 3 7/16 x 1/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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John Flaxman, gift to; Mr. Tulk (Tulk and Flaxman were friends), to; his son, J. A. Tulk, Addlestone, Surrey, gift; to Eliza Meteyard [1], Hampstead, London, gift; to John Bragg, Hamstead Mount, Birmingham, 1872, sold; to Richard and George Tangyne, Birmingham, acquired; by [Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
Notes
[1] Meteyard was Wedgwood's biographer
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.1259
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Jean Gorely, "The Winthrop Collection", Old Wedgwood, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1943), no. 10, pp. 132-139, p. 135
- Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 93, p. 38, repr. p. 93
- Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 30, repr.
Exhibition History
- Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
- Eighteenth Century European Ceramics, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/02/2005 - 06/09/2008
- Looking Back: The Western Tradition in Retrospect, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018
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