1943.1248.1-21: Frame of twenty reliefs and one intaglio
Sculpture
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.1248.1-21
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Frame of twenty reliefs and one intaglio
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, relief
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229714
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- White jasperware busts in relief on blue, pink, gray and green backgrounds
- Technique
- Jasperware
- Dimensions
- 23.7 x 20.6 x 4 cm (9 5/16 x 8 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: backing of frame, paper, handwritten: Old Wedgwood / 1730-1795 / 21 fine jasper cameos / + intaglio for rings / or seals. / 1785-1790.
- label: backing of frame, paper and black ink, handwritten: [diagram of layout of cameos:]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; [through Cooper and Griffith, New York] to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1910, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.1248.1-21
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- All cameos in thin gold wire "frames," affixed to backing. Brown wooden oval frame, sealed at back.
Publication History
- Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 1, pp. 8-10
- 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. 35, 37
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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Verification Level
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