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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1226
People
Manufactured by Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Title
Ganymede Feeding the Eagle
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Oval Plaque of Ganymede Feeding the Eagle
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, relief
Date
by 1778
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229691

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White jasperware body with green glaze and figures in white relief
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
sight: 14.9 × 13 × 1.5 cm (5 7/8 × 5 1/8 × 9/16 in.)
framed: 26 × 23 cm (10 1/4 × 9 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: reverse, impressed: WEDGWOOD
  • inscription: reverse, incised: Glossy wt. mended [trial note]
  • gallery label: reverse, paper, black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] F. RATHBONE,/ South Kensington, / LONDON, S.W. / [handwritten:] Ganymede & Eagle / a rare example in Green / Propert & Sanderson / Colln / 1788 III / 47
  • inscription: reverse, graphite, handwritten: 289 / 13055
  • inscription: reverse, black ink, handwritten: Written by Josiah Wedgwood

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. J. Lumsden Propert, London, England, Sold to Sanderson?, 1902. Per Rathbone. Gorely article (see bibliography) claims that this work was sold to Sanderson in 1902, when Propert's collection was dispersed.
Arthur Sanderson, Edinburgh, Scotland, Purchased from Propert estate?, 1902. Per Rathbone. Gorely article (see bibliography) claims that Sanderson acquired the work from Propert when his collection was sold in 1902.
Frederick Rathbone, London, England, Sold to Winthrop, 1911.
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, Purchased from Rathbone, 1911, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Winthrop paid $340

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1226
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Ganymede seated under tree faces Eagle at left, who feeds from two-handled bowl. Seven firing holes on back.

Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 31, pp. 20-21
  • Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 30
  • Carol Macht, Classical Wedgwood Designs, M. Barrows and Co. (New York, NY, 1957), pp. 69-71, repr. p. 69 as plate 42
  • 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, pp. 38-39

Exhibition History

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

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