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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1227
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Title
Thalia, Muse of Comedy
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, relief
Date
1777
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229979

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White jasperware body with rose glazed background and figure in white relief
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
sight: 14.7 × 9.9 × 1.5 cm (5 13/16 × 3 7/8 × 9/16 in.)
framed: 25.4 × 20.5 cm (10 × 8 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: reverse, impressed: WEDGWOOD
  • gallery label: reverse, paper, black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] F. RATHBONE, / South Kensington, / LONDON, S. W. / [handwritten:] rare pink plaque / Comedy / 1793 / III/45
  • inscription: reverse, graphite, handwritten: 13059; 13057

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Arthur Sanderson, Edinburgh, Scotland. [Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 1911, 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
1943.1227
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
At least seven firing holes

Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 29, p. 20
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), pp. 210-211. no. 134

Exhibition History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969

Verification Level

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