Benjamin Franklin Medallion

Wedgwood, English, 1730 - 1795

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1929-1956

Jasperware

Overall: 5 1/8 × 4 1/16 in. (13 × 10.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Harold Goddard Rugg, Class of 1906

C.957.113

Geography

Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, on reverse: "Franklin" [in cursive handwriting]/WEDGWOOD [with small circular marking beneath].

Exhibition History

Bicentennial of Benjamin Franklin's Death, Baker library; Main Corrider, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 22-October 22, 1990.

Provenance

Collected by Harold Goddard Rugg (1883-1957, Class of 1906), Hanover, New Hampshire; given by his Estate to present collection, 1957.

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