Medallion with Apollo and Marsyas

Wedgwood (English ceramics manufactory, 1759 to the present)

Tassie, James (1735-1799)

Item type:

decorative art

Date of creation:

1758-1800

Height:

4.0 cm  (1 9/16 in.)

Width:

3.0 cm  (1 3/16 in.)

Depth:

0.5 cm  ( 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

jasperware pottery

Description

Apollo holding a kithara.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kithara [4940]

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) 7 (140da82). RILM 1988-275.

Notes

Owens attributes the work to James Tassie (Scottish modeler, enameler, and manufacturer, 1735-1799).

RIdIM record id

4296