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Medallioni Amicorum Sumptis

Porcelain oval platter with molded scalloped edge lavishly decorated with white floral pattern with colorful elements. The central scene depicts an elephant with a rider flanked by brightly-colored flowers.

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  • Porcelain oval platter with molded scalloped edge lavishly decorated with white floral pattern with colorful elements. The central scene depicts an elephant with a rider flanked by brightly-colored flowers.

Date:

1914

Artist:

John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke
American, 1869–1953

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke

Title

Medallioni Amicorum Sumptis

Place

United States (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1914

Medium

Bronze

Inscriptions

Inscribed: Inter fratres bellum ultinum and Medallioni Umicorum sumptis Signed: Mowbray-Clark Inscribed on reverse: Pax per C . annos and 1814-1914

Dimensions

Diam.: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson

Reference Number

1914.689

Extended information about this artwork

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