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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1248.1-21
People
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
  • 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
[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
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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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