Harvard Art Museums > 1943.1259: Trial for the Portland Vase Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Trial for the Portland Vase (Manufactured by Wedgwood) , 1943.1259,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/229676. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.1259 People Manufactured by Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 ) Title Trial for the Portland Vase Other Titles Former Title: Foliage from the Portland Vase Alternate Title: Study for Portland Vase: tree foliage / Trial Piece for Portland Vase Classification Sculpture Work Type relief, sculpture Date 1786 Places Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria Culture British Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/229676 Physical Descriptions Technique Jasperware Dimensions 6.7 x 8.7 x 0.7 cm (2 5/8 x 3 7/16 x 1/4 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History John Flaxman, gift to; Mr. Tulk (Tulk and Flaxman were friends), to; his son, J. A. Tulk, Addlestone, Surrey, gift; to Eliza Meteyard [1], Hampstead, London, gift; to John Bragg, Hamstead Mount, Birmingham, 1872, sold; to Richard and George Tangyne, Birmingham, acquired; by [Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943 Notes [1] Meteyard was Wedgwood's biographer Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.1259 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Jean Gorely, "The Winthrop Collection", Old Wedgwood, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1943), no. 10, pp. 132-139, p. 135 Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 93, p. 38, repr. p. 93 Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 30, repr. Exhibition History Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944 Eighteenth Century European Ceramics, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/02/2005 - 06/09/2008 Looking Back: The Western Tradition in Retrospect, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018 Related Works 1943.1181 Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Portland Vase Vessels Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
