Cupid and doves

Unknown (British)

Wedgwood (English ceramics manufactory, 1759 to the present)


Item type:
sculpture
Date of creation:
1789
Height:
17.8 cm  (7 in.)
Width:
7.6 cm  (3 in.)
Technique / Medium:
jasperware pottery

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    The Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection of Old Wedgwood[Museum inv. no.: 1912.1042]

Description

The decoration on the pedestal includes a syrinx and a wind instrument, perhaps a trumpet.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet [4446]

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 (171da82). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1981