VI478
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York / CC0
- Artist:
- Staffordshire Pottery
- Ralph Wood
- Staffordshire Pottery
- After:
- Year of creation:
- 1790-1810
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- sculpture
- Materials:
- lead-glazed earthenware
- Dimensions:
- 12.8 x 21 cm
- Current location:
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City
- Collection ID number:
- 18349803
- Collection link:
- https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18349803/
- Inscriptions:
- [on the pedestal] Voltaire
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Myrna Schkolne, Staffordshire Figures, 1780–1840, vol. 1: Manufacturers, Pastimes, and Work, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2013, pp. 25-27.
- Myrna Schkolne, Staffordshire Figures, 1780–1840, vol. 4: Family, Friendship, Play, and Classical Subjects, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2014, pp. 230-231, fig. 200.28, 200.29, 200.30, 200.31.
- The World of Voltaire [exh. cat. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 30 March – 11 May 1969], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1969, pp. 14-15, cat. no. 6.
- Related:
- [another version] Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, C.14-1947
- [another version] Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 68-1874
- [another version] Château de Voltaire, Ferney-Voltaire
- [another version] Victoria and Albert Museum, London, CIRC.448-1967
- [another version] Bonhams, 11 May 2005 sale, Lot 95
- [another version] Bonhams, 6 May 2008 sale, Lot 67
- [another version, with a pendant Rousseau] Bonhams, 20 November 2014 sale, Lot 49
- [another version, with a pendant Rousseau] Bonhams, 24 July 2012 sale, Lot 22
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