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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1233.A-B
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Title
"Michelangelo" vase
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 1790-1800
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229790

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Green-dipped jasperware with figures and decoration in white jasperware
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
31.4 x 19 x 18.5 cm (12 3/8 x 7 1/2 x 7 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: impressed into bottom:: WEDGWOOD
  • label: on bottom, pink label, printed and handwritten in black ink:: [printed:] F. RATHBONE, / 20 Alfred Place West Kensington / LONDON, SW / [handwritten:] Unique. / Atlas vase in green / Old Wedgwood 1790 / the only one known to 1916
  • inscription: handwritten in red chalk on bottom:: [58] or [8G]?

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 1916, 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
1943.1233.A-B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 85, p. 35
  • Judith A. Neiswander, "Selections from the Ceramics Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University", Ars Ceramica, Wedgwood Society of New York (Bronx, NY, 1991), no. 8, pp. 38-39, repr. as fig. 7 and on cover
  • Ingeborg Hoesterey, Pastiche: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature, Indiana University Press (Bloomington IN, 2001), pp. 24-25

Exhibition History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
  • Old Wedgwood, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1973 - 05/27/1973

Verification Level

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