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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1208
People
Manufactured by Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
After Bernard de Montfaucon, French (1655 - 1741 Paris)
Title
Diomedes with the Palladium
Classification
Medals and Medallions
Work Type
medallion
Date
late 18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229925

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lavender jasperware body with blue central field; decorative border and figures in white relief
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
4.1 cm diam. x 0.5 cm depth (1 5/8 x 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: verso, impressed: WEDGWOOD
  • gallery label: removed from verso, paper and black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] F. RATHBONE / South Kensington, / LONDON, S.W.; [handwritten:] Old Wedgwood / tri-colour medallion. / Diomedes. 1792 / Sir J. D. Hooker / colln.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sir Joseph D. Hooker, sold; to [Frederick Rathbone, London, 1911], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1912, 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
1943.1208
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eliza Meteyard, Memorials of Wedgwood, George Bell (London, England, 1874), pl. VI
  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 26, p. 18
  • Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 29
  • Jean Gorely, "Sir Joseph Hooker's Collection", Old Wedgwood, The Wedgwood Club, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1945), no. 12, pp. 78-85, repr. p. 80
  • Carol Macht, Classical Wedgwood Designs, M. Barrows and Co. (New York, NY, 1957), p. 43-44, repr. as plate 19
  • Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 107, Plate 43c; p. 127, Plate 63 (contents of cabinet)

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