1943.1238: Antique Style Vase
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.1238
- People
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Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
After Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville, French (Padua, Italy)
- Title
- Antique Style Vase
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 1780-1800
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229802
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black basaltes with ochre and cream encaustic decoration
- Technique
- Basaltes ware
- Dimensions
- 62.2 x 41.4 x 33.8 cm (24 1/2 x 16 5/16 x 13 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- manufacturer's mark: on bottom, impressed:: WEDGWOOD / A
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Frederick Rathbone, London, England, sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1914, 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
- 1943.1238
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Black basaltes, molded in one piece, with ochre and cream encaustic decoration; swans' heads flank the joint of the handles, which are scrolled with female masks inset.
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. 84, p. 35
- Mary Wadsworth, Flashback: Some Sources of Wedgwood Designs, Collectors Weekly (April 3, 2009), Reprint from "American Collector" magazine, March 1947. http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/some-sources-of-wedgwood-designs/ , accessed March 31, 2017; repr. as fig. 1
- 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. 39
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
- Around Antique: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs (Teaching Gallery) S421, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/14/2010 - 09/04/2010
Verification Level
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