1938.45: Mold for a Portrait of Two Children
SculptureA silver disc bordered with alternating ridges and a scalloped arched border. At the center of the disc two small children are carved in profile, visible from the shoulders up. One child is slightly in front of the other. They wear their hair in curls around their temples and the front child wears the rest of their hair tied back into a low ponytail. They both wear collared clothes which tie at their throats.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1938.45
- People
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Giovanni Battista Nini, Italian (Urbino, Italy 1717 - 1786 Chaumont sur Loire, France)
- Title
- Mold for a Portrait of Two Children
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 1763-1764
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230234
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Intaglio
- Dimensions
- 14.3 × 3 cm (5 5/8 × 1 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in relief, on truncation [backwards]: I NINI F.
- inscription: verso, graphite, handwritten: No. 1[5?]4
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1938
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
- Accession Year
- 1938
- Object Number
- 1938.45
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Eighteenth Century European Ceramics, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/02/2005 - 06/09/2008
- 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/2019 - 06/02/2025
Verification Level
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