The Wedgwood Museum − Collections

Type of object: Plaques and medallions/portrait medallion
Mark: WEDGWOOD MADE IN ENGLAND BB 76 (impressed)
Year first produced: 1976
Body: Jasper
Material: Ceramic
Decoration: Ornamented
Accession number: 10520
Dimensions: 369 mm (height)

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Solid pale-blue oval portrait medallion with white bas-relief portrait of HRH Prince Charles wearing military uniform.

Arnold Machin Modeller
- Biography
Arnold Machin - Modeller

Machin was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1911. He started work at the age of 14 as an apprentice china painter at the Minton Pottery, and during the Depression he learnt to sculpt at the Art School in Stoke-on-Trent. He later moved to Derby, and the Royal Academy in London. After spending the Second World War as a conscientious objector, he returned to modelling and sculpture, and created many notable ceramics which are now prized collectors' items. In 1946 he was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy, was appointed a Master of Sculpture from 1959 to 1966 and became the longest-serving member of the Academy. He was elected an Academician in 1956 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. From 1951 he was a tutor at the Royal College of Art, where he entered the culture that was to bring him his most celebrated commissions. He was probably best remembered for the designing of the new decimal coinage effigies of Queen Elizabeth in 1964 and 1967 and for the definitive issue of postage stamps in 1967.

HRH Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor, The Prince of Wales Subject
- Biography
HRH Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor, The Prince of Wales - Subject

Eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and heir to the throne of the United Kingdom.

Portrait medallion

Portrait medallion

A medallion, either circular or oval, made usually from black basalt or jasper, which features a head or head and shoulders study, rather than a relief of a classical nature.