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After Guglielmo della Porta (c.1505 - 1577)
Wedgwood Factory, maker
under Josiah Wedgwood I
under Josiah Wedgwood I
Oval relief, ‘Jupiter destroying the Giants’, Wedgwood
1773 (circa, modelled)
Factory in: Etruria
Black basalt relief, mould-made
Museum number: M1477
Curatorial note
Plaque, black basalt, oval, moulded with a scene of Jupiter destroying the Giants in relief, set within a frame with a plain hollow and a gadrooned outer moulding.
Exhibition history
Thomas Banks 1735-1805: Britain's First Modern Sculptor, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 21 January - 9 April 2005
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: worksofart@soane.org.uk