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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1091390, member: 5833&quot;]I was going to reply that MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) doesn&#039;t know the first thing about neoclassical art &amp; that it was surprising for them to have Wedgwood in their collections at all, but, upon checking, I see it really lives at the MMA (Metropolitan Museum of Art).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/187868" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/187868" rel="nofollow">theirs</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/187868/1827325/main-image" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="6"><b> Plaque&nbsp;&nbsp; ca. 1785–90&nbsp; </b></font></p><p><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=Josiah Wedgwood and Sons&amp;perPage=20&amp;sortBy=Relevance&amp;offset=0&amp;pageSize=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=Josiah Wedgwood and Sons&amp;perPage=20&amp;sortBy=Relevance&amp;offset=0&amp;pageSize=0" rel="nofollow">Josiah Wedgwood and Sons</a></p><p><br /></p><p>They have another plaque they have titled <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/190599" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/190599" rel="nofollow">An Offering to Peace</a> that is obviously misidentified:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/190599/1821306/main-image" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It has more in common with this &#039;<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/195077" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/195077" rel="nofollow">Plaque</a>&#039;:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/195077/1821324/main-image" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, completely unable to find it at the moment, but think this is an allegory of something like Friendship Consoling Affliction.*&nbsp; The other looks along the lines of Experience/Maturity Consoling Innocence/Youth.&nbsp; As usual, the Wedgwood Museum&#039;s online collection is being no help at all, although this is their concept of <a href="http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/collections/search-the-collection/object/intaglio-mould-depicting-flora" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/collections/search-the-collection/object/intaglio-mould-depicting-flora" rel="nofollow">Flora</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/media/18/generic/906.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a lot of crossover in the iconography of Peace, Plenty, Prosperity &amp; Fortune.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have one contact in the Met&#039;s Department of European Sculpture &amp; Decorative Arts, although this is not her area.&nbsp; They seem to have a new young curator whose field is ceramics; maybe she would pass along a message.&nbsp; Believe me, museums make mistakes too, especially when work was done pre-Internet &amp; have not been revisited since.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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