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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1385
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Title
Flora
Classification
Jewelry
Work Type
jewelry
Date
c. 1790
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229812

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Blue jasper body with figure in white relief
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
7 x 5.1 x 1.9 cm (2 3/4 x 2 x 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: on bottom of case, handwritten in black ink:: 123

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1385
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Full length draped winged female holding floral garland in both hands. Medallion is convex, in setting with beaded border and faceted beads. Reverse of buckle has one perforated edge, three rectangular slots for fastening.

Publication History

  • Jean Gorely, "The Winthrop Collection", Old Wedgwood, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1943), no. 10, pp. 132-139, p. 136
  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 16, p. 15
  • 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, pp. 37-38, repr. p. 38 as fig. 9

Exhibition History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/2015 - 05/05/2016

Verification Level

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