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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 143, The Timothy Sainsbury Gallery

Honora Sneyd Edgeworth

Trial Portrait Medallion
1780 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oval medallion (7 x 5.7 cm) with head and shoulders portrait in low relief white Jasper stoneware on a solid white Jasper ground; she is shown facing left; the front impressed 'HONORA EDGEWORTH OB. 1780' below truncation; the back impressed 'WEDGWOOD' and inscribed 'old 1559 white' and with two large conical vent holes.


Object details

Object type
TitleHonora Sneyd Edgeworth
Materials and techniques
White Jasper stoneware low relief applied to a solid white Jasper ground, both relief and support produced in a mould and luted together before firing.
Brief description
Portrait medallion of Honora Sneyd Edgworth, Jasper ware, by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, ca. 1780
Physical description
Oval medallion (7 x 5.7 cm) with head and shoulders portrait in low relief white Jasper stoneware on a solid white Jasper ground; she is shown facing left; the front impressed 'HONORA EDGEWORTH OB. 1780' below truncation; the back impressed 'WEDGWOOD' and inscribed 'old 1559 white' and with two large conical vent holes.
Credit line
Given by Mrs Ursula Vaughan Williams
Object history
Provenance: by descent through the Wedgwood, Darwin and Vaughan Williams families.
Production
Josiah Wedgwood (manufacturer), after a model attributed to John Flaxman (after a silhouette by Mrs Harrington and a miniature by J. Smart)
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.82-1999

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Record createdJanuary 27, 2000
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