Full Figure Statuette
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Caption
Wedgwood and Sons (British, Staffordshire, 1759–present). Full Figure Statuette, ca.1785. Basalt (stoneware), 11 × 16 × 4 1/2 in. (27.9 × 40.6 × 11.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Emily Winthrop Miles, 55.25.7.
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Title
Full Figure Statuette
Date
ca.1785
Medium
Basalt (stoneware)
Classification
Dimensions
11 × 16 × 4 1/2 in. (27.9 × 40.6 × 11.4 cm)
Markings
WEDGWOOD stamped into back of base, just below tree stump. Modelled by Anthony Keeling at Etruria, in 1779; its companion piece is the statuette of Voltaire (55.25.6, Keeling was the son-in-law of Enoch Booth, an important potter. Possibly modelled from a satue by Houdon? Condition: Excellent
Credit Line
Gift of Emily Winthrop Miles
Accession Number
55.25.7
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