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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1225
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Title
Diomedes with the Palladium
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, relief
Date
1773-1796
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229907

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red stoneware ("Rosso Antico") with black stoneware relief
Technique
Relief
Dimensions
7.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 cm (2 13/16 x 2 1/8 x 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower edge, relief, Greek: TNAIOY [=Gnaios]
  • inscription: verso, black ink, handwritten: 3 4 12
  • label: verso, paper [torn], black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] 219 Dio[med]es with the Palladium [handwritten:] Dr. [An]son Collection
  • gallery label: back of frame, paper and black ink, printed: F. RATHBONE / 20 Alfred Place West / South Kensington, / LONDON, S.W.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lord Thomas Anson, Staffordshire, England. [1] [Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Notes
[1] Per Rathbone.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1225
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Rectangular plaque. Diomedes with Palladium in left hand and sword in right is seated facing a statue of Neptune on a column at right.

Publication History

  • Jean Gorely, "The Winthrop Collection", Old Wedgwood, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1943), no. 10, pp. 132-139, p. 137
  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 27, p. 19
  • Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 29
  • Carol Macht, Classical Wedgwood Designs, M. Barrows and Co. (New York, NY, 1957), p. 44

Exhibition History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
  • Eighteenth Century European Ceramics, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/02/2005 - 06/09/2008

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