1943.1196: Marriage Feast of Perseus and Andromeda

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.1196

People

Wedgwood & Bentley, British (in business 1769-1780)
After Guglielmo della Porta, Italian (Porlezza, Italy 1500-10 - 1577 Rome, Italy)

Title

Marriage Feast of Perseus and Andromeda

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

c. 1768

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230232

Physical Descriptions

Medium

White jasper medallion with molded white relief

Technique

Jasperware

Dimensions

sight: 13.1 x 20 x 1.5 cm (5 3/16 x 7 7/8 x 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• manufacturer's mark: back of work, impressed: WEDGWOOD / & BENTLEY
• inscription: back of work, incised: +
• label: back of work, paper, black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] R. TANGYE / BIRMINGHAM; [handwritten:] B 22
• gallery label: back of work, paper, black ink, handwritten: Marriage / supper of Perseus / & Andromeda a fine / plaque highly-fired / in white jasper 1770 / Sir Richard Tangye's / collection.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sir Richard Tangye, Birmingham, England. [1] [Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, 1919, 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

1943.1196

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 32, p. 21
• Casey Monahan, "'If I offer you too much you have the remedy by declining it!:' Frederick Rathbone and the Grenville Lindall Winthrop Collection of Wedgwood at the Harvard Art Museums", Proceedings of the Sixty-Fourth Annual Wedgwood International Seminar, Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, 2019), pp. 33-43, p. 37

Exhibition History

• Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
• Old Wedgwood, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1973 - 05/27/1973

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