Benjamin Franklin Medallion
Wedgwood, English, 1730 - 1795
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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