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A disc with the portraits of two children.

A silver disc bordered with alternating ridges and a scalloped arched border. At the center of the disc two small children are carved in profile, visible from the shoulders up. One child is slightly in front of the other. They wear their hair in curls around their temples and the front child wears the rest of their hair tied back into a low ponytail. They both wear collared clothes which tie at their throats.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1938.45
People
Giovanni Battista Nini, Italian (Urbino, Italy 1717 - 1786 Chaumont sur Loire, France)
Title
Mold for a Portrait of Two Children
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1763-1764
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230234

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2340, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Silver Cabinet: Art and Ritual, 1600–1850
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Intaglio
Dimensions
14.3 × 3 cm (5 5/8 × 1 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in relief, on truncation [backwards]: I NINI F.
  • inscription: verso, graphite, handwritten: No. 1[5?]4

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1938

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1938
Object Number
1938.45
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Eighteenth Century European Ceramics, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/02/2005 - 06/09/2008
  • 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/2019 - 03/01/2025

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