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Wedgwood, Josiah
(Factory)
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 (2022)
"Medallion"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11443 Accessed: 2022-08-19 05:37:17
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Medallion
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-08-19 05:37:17|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"
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Medallion</figcaption>
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