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Explore image in Maker: Wedgwood, British, founded 1759
Subject: Adam Duncan, British, 1731–1804
Modeler: John de Vaere, British, born Belgium, 1755–1830
Portrait Medallion: Viscount Adam Duncan
1798
Jasper, with blue background, wooden frame
14.29 × 11.27 × 2.54 cm (5 5/8 × 4 7/16 × 1 in.)
Gift of Nancy Stiner
2011.28.7
Geography:
Manufactured in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Culture:
British
Period:
18th century
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
R. T. Haines Halsey (1864–1942), New York, New York, and New Haven, Connecticut, by 1909; by descent to his wife Elizabeth Tower Halsey (1904-1976), New Haven, Connecticut; sold ca. 1960 to Nancy Stiner, Hamden, Connecticut
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2011.pdf (accessed March 1, 2012).
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
