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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1259
People
Manufactured by Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Title
Trial for the Portland Vase
Other Titles
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
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
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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

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