Harvard Art Museums > 1943.1238: Antique Style Vase Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Antique Style Vase (Wedgwood)(After Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville) , 1943.1238,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/229802. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.1238 People 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 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 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. 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 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
