Sacrifice to Hymen

Wedgwood (English ceramics manufactory, 1759 to the present) (workshop of)


Item type:
decorative art
Date of creation:
ca. 1792
Height:
22.2 cm  (8 3/4 in.)
Width:
10.0 cm  (3 15/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
jasperware pottery

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    The Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection of Old Wedgwood[Museum inv. no.: 1912.1190]

Description

Two women playing long curved horns; a putto playing a wind instrument.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Horn [4118]
Aerophone [4310]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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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) 6 (112da82). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1992