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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1187
People
Wedgwood & Bentley, British (in business 1769-1780)
Modelled by? John Cheere, British (1709 - 1787)
Modelled by? Hoskins & Grant, British (18th c.)
Refinishing attributed to William Keeling, British
Title
Aristophanes
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, bust
Date
c. 1775
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230220

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black basalt
Technique
Basaltes ware
Dimensions
5.8 x 5.3 x 3.2 cm (2 5/16 x 2 1/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
with base: 12.4 x 5.3 x 3.2 cm (4 7/8 x 2 1/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: back of shoulder, impressed: ARISTOPHANES
  • manufacturer's mark: back of bust, impressed: Wedgwood / & Bentley
  • inscription: inside base, incised: 2

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
1943.1187
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jean Gorely, "The Winthrop Collection", Old Wedgwood, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1943), no. 10, pp. 132-139, pp. 136-137
  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 68, p. 30

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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