The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

Josiah Wedgwood and Sons|Josiah Wedgwood

ca. 1780–1800 · Jasperware · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The eighteenth century's most admired and widely replicated ancient cameo, called the "Marlborough Cameo" after the collection it then belonged to, enacts an initiation rite involving two curiously veiled children, traditionally identified as Cupid and Psyche. This is Wedgwood's blue-andwhite takeoff on the original brown-hued sardonyx in Boston, which is signed by the Greek carver, "Tryphon."

Artist

Josiah Wedgwood and Sons|Josiah Wedgwood

Date

ca. 1780–1800

Medium

Jasperware

Culture

British, Etruria, Staffordshire

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935