Cupid playing a lyre

Unknown (British)

Wedgwood (English ceramics manufactory, 1759 to the present)


Item type:
decorative art
Date of creation:
1758-1800
Height:
10.0 cm  (3 15/16 in.)
Width:
8.3 cm  (3 1/4 in.)
Depth:
0.6 cm  ( 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
jasperware pottery

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    The Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection of Old Wedgwood[Museum inv. no.: 1912.1231]

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

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 (173da82). RILM 1988-275.

Notes

Record not found as of 8/27/2019 on the Art Institute of Chicago's website.

RIdIM record id

1979