1943.1179: Venus with Dolphin
Medals and Medallions
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.1179
- People
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Wedgwood & Bentley, British (in business 1769-1780)
- Title
- Venus with Dolphin
- Classification
- Medals and Medallions
- Work Type
- medallion
- Date
- 1773
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229911
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- White jasperware body with blue glaze and white figure in relief
- Technique
- Jasperware
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 6.7 x 1.2 cm (3 1/4 x 2 5/8 x 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- manufacturer's mark: verso, impressed: WEDGWOOD / & BENTLEY
- gallery label: verso, paper and black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] F. RATHBONE / South Kensington, / LONDON, S.W.; [handwritten:] Venus by / Flaxman / Old Wedgwood / 1776
- label: verso, paper, black ink, handwritten: 6
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest, to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.1179
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 13, p. 14
Exhibition History
- Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
Verification Level
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