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Factory: Wedgwood, Josiah
Jasper, white with dark blue wash on both sides, and white relief. Oval with lapidary polished outer edge which slopes outwards towards the back surface. On the left a woman stands playing a lyre which stands on a pedestal in front of which is an oval medallion with a man's head in profile to right. On the right a winged boy leans on a trumpet as if mourning.
History note: Unknown before testator
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Height: 8.1 cm
Width: 6.1 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Late 18th century
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1790
Reliefs
Accession number: C.109-1961
Primary reference Number: 11443
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Medallion" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11443 Accessed: 2023-01-31 20:31:27
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11443
|title=Medallion
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-01-31 20:31:27|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-11443
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_109_1961.jpg"
alt="Medallion"
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Medallion</figcaption>
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Accession Number: C.8F-1975
Accession Number: C.8G-1975
Accession Number: C.8A-1975
Accession Number: C.8B-1975
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