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Candelabrum Depicting an Allegorical Figure of Liberty
c. 1775
(Chelsea-Derby Period, 1770–84)
Overall: 32.4 x 25.6 x 14.2 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness 1917.627.2
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The canopy of foliage surrounding these figures was inspired by the arbors popular in theatrical stage designs during the mid-1700s.Description
This allegorical figure depicts a shepherd dressed in richly patterned garments. Here the figure (Liberty) is accompanied by a dog and a bird that perches on his outstretched arm. An accompanying figure, a shepherdess (Matrimony) holds a birdcage in one hand and subtly directs the viewer’s gaze toward the sheep resting nearby with the other.- ?-1916Mary Warden Harkness [1864-1916], New York, NY, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art1917-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- "Bequest of Mrs. Charles W. Harkness." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 4 (1917): 63. Mentioned: p. 63 www.jstor.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11 archive.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 10 archive.orgMilliken, William Mathewson. "European Porcelains Bequeathed by Mary Warden Harkness." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 2 (February 1928): 57-59. Reproduced: p. 58 25137108
- British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).No legacy exhibitions.Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).
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