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Portrait Medallion 2016-147
Portrait Medallion, Pierre Gassendi
Portrait Medallion 2016-147

Portrait Medallion, Pierre Gassendi

Dateca. 1779
Maker Etruria Factory (1769-1949)
Maker Wedgwood & Bentley (1768-1780)
Maker Wedgwood (Est. 1759)
OriginEngland, Staffordshire, Etruria
MediumStoneware, dry-bodied (Jasperware) with wood and copper frame
DimensionsMedallion: OH: 3 7/8in; OW: 3 1/8in.; With Frame: OH; 4 3/4in; OW: 4in.
Credit LineGift of Troy D. Chappell
Object number2016-147
DescriptionPortrait medallion: dry-bodied stoneware (jasperware) solid blue oval medallion with a white molded and scuptured bas-relief image of Pierre Gassendi facing right. Gassendi was a leading astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher. Marked with the impressed mark WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY. The period frame is of wood faced with varnished copper.
MarkingsThe reverse with impressed "WEDGWOOD / & BENTLEY"