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Scanned and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Horn of Plenty Fountain Head
Scanned and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Scanned and color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Horn of Plenty Fountain Head

Artist Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (American, 1880 - 1980)
CultureAmerican
Date1935
MediumBronze | Stone
DimensionsOverall: 12 x 22 x 10 in. (30.5 x 55.9 x 25.4 cm)
Base: 6 3/4 x 1 in. (17.1 x 2.5 cm)
InscribedTop left on base: HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH; Left side of base: CELLINI BRONZE WORKS NY; Top right of base: 1865-1929 / IN MEMORIUM; Right side of base: LOUISE COLLIER WILCOX
Credit LineGift in memoriam of Louise Collier Willcox by her interested friends in memory of her cultural achievements
Object number35.16.1B
Not on view
DescriptionOne of a pair of bronze horn of plenty fountain head mounted on a stone base. Spilling fruits, with a small lizard to spray the water and a garland of laurel around the upturned end of the horn. Most of the fruits represented growth in Tidewater Virginia as does the lizard. The fruits represent the achievements in life.

Label TextHarriet Whitney Frishmuth American, 1880–1980 Horn of Plenty Fountain Head, 1935 Bronze Chrysler Museum of Art, Gift in memoriam of Louise Collier Willcox by her interested friends in memory of her cultural achievements 35.16.1BExhibition History"The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 16 - September 6, 2015.Published ReferencesJanis Conner, Leah R. Lehmbeck & Thayer Tolles with commentary by Frank L. Hohmann III, _Captured Motion: The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, A Catalogue of Works_ (New York: Hohmann Holdings LLC., 2006) p. 266. ISBN: 0-9789689-0-5 ISBN: 978-0-9789689-0-8
Scanned and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
1935
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Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1775-78
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Caughley
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Severin Roesen
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Dorothea Waller Tazewell
1810
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ca. 1776
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Unknown
1760-1770
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Unknown
1700-1750
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Samuel Kirk & Son
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1980
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Unknown
1st century A.D.