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Medallion of a Sacrifice
Factory: Wedgwood
Jasper, solid pale blue, with white relief. Oval with lapidary polished edge, sloping outwards towards the back. A woman holding a short twig stands on the left. A woman kneeling on the right in profile to left is sacrificing over an altar.
History note: Unknown before testator
Bequeathed by Louis Colville Gray Clarke
Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 5.1 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
Circa
1780
CE
-
1800
CE
Josiah Wedgwood I or Wedgwood & Byerley
Reliefs
Accession number: C.110-1961
Primary reference Number: 11444
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 of a Sacrifice" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11444 Accessed: 2023-06-08 03:01:29
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Accession Number: C.67-1982
Accession Number: EC.3-1940
Accession Number: C.112-2010
Accession Number: MAR.C.24-1912
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