IDENTIFIERS
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id:	11399
accession number:	MAR.C.20-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Jasper, pale blue with darker blue wash on the upper surface, and white relief. Oval, with head of Benjamin Franklin in profile to left, and 'FRANKLIN' impressed below the truncation. There are two circular holes in the back.
title:	portrait medallion

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before testator


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11399

PEOPLE
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Franklin, Benjamin




CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1775 - 1780
creation date earliest:	1775
creation date latest:	1780
culture:	18th Century, Late
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Wedgwood & Bentley
maker: Hackwood, William

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 5.4

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 4.5



CITATIONS
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A catalogue of cameos, intaglios, medals, busts, small statues, and bas-reliefs; with a general account of vases and other ornaments, after the antique, made by Wedgwood & Bentley, and sold at their rooms in Great Newport Street, London.
Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture
Wedgwood, The Portrait Medallions
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P.,  and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain
Masterpieces of Wedgwood in the British Museum
The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood Collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art
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