SculptureBritish18th century

Female Portrait Bust

18th century

Artists

James TassieArtist

Description

A lady with her hair up, in left profile.

Classification

Sculpture

Medium

White glass relief on blue glass ground

Culture

British

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts

Dimensions

sight: 1.9 x 1.5 x 1 cm (3/4 x 9/16 x 3/8 in.)

Provenance

[Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; [through Cooper and Griffith, New York] to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1910, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

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