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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1228.B
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Modelled by William Hackwood, British (1757 - 1839)
Designed by John Flaxman, British (York, England 1755 - 1826 London, England)
Title
The Dancing Hours
Classification
Plaques
Work Type
plaque
Date
1778 or after
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229991

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White jasperware with lavender glaze on front; figures in white relief
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
13.4 x 47.4 x 3 cm (5 1/4 x 18 11/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: verso, impressed: WEDGWOOD [stamped twice]
  • gallery label: back of frame, paper and black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] F. RATHBONE / South Kensington, / LONDON, S.W. [handwritten:] The Dancing Hours / 2 fine plaques on / pink ground / 1783 period
  • label: back of frame, paper and black ink, handwritten: from W. D. Holt / collection

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
W. Durning Holt. [1] [Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 1912, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Notes
[1] Per Rathbone

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1228.B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 30, p. 20
  • Jean Gorely, Wedgwood, M. Barrows and Co. (New York, 1950), p. 102, cat. no. 59, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944

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