Triton playing shell horn

Unknown (British)

Wedgwood (English ceramics manufactory, 1759 to the present)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

ca. 18th century

Height:

22.8 cm  (9 in.)

Width:

38.9 cm  (15 5/16 in.)

Frame dimensions: 30.9 x 44.9 x 2.2 cm.

Technique / Medium:

Plaque: stoneware; blue jasper with white bas-relief figures

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Conch-shell trumpet [4389]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 9 (173da84). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1973