Putti

Unknown (British)

Wedgwood (English ceramics manufactory, 1759 to the present)


Item type:
decorative art
Date of creation:
1785
Height:
8.8 cm  (3 7/16 in.)
Width:
15.5 cm  (6 1/8 in.)
Depth:
11.7 cm  (4 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
stoneware

Additional titles

Paint chest

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    The Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection of Old Wedgwood[Museum inv. no.: 1912.1019]

Description

Groups of putti include one playing a lute and another holding a trumpet; another putto plays a lyre and a companion plays a viol for two dancing putti; another putto plays a curved animal horn.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]
Viola da gamba [3604]
Lute [3394]
Trumpet [4446]
Horn [4118]

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) 8 (179da82). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1976