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It may have been inspired by an ancient Roman sculpture of a marriage ceremony. Juno Pronuba means Juno who arranges marriages.\r\n\r\nNollekens was a prolific sculptor of portrait busts and operated a thriving workshop in London. He spent eight years in Rome from 1762 to 1770, where he worked with Bartolomeo Cavaceppi restoring and copying antique marbles. One of these copies, his group of <i>Castor and Pollux</i>, is in the Museum's collection (Museum no. A.59-1940). He probably perfected his modelling of clay while he was in Rome and started to experiment in making small figures or groups. These occasionally became models for large-scale finished marbles, but many, like this one, still in his studio at his death, were simply studies in their own right, which he called <i>pensieri</i> (thoughts).","physicalDescription":"Figure, terracotta. The goddess, who wears a garlanded veil, stands with a nuptial torch (top missing) in her right hand (missing) and another object (missing) in her left.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Nollekens, Joseph","id":"A8699"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"terracotta","id":"AAT10669"}],"techniques":[{"text":"relief","id":"AAT53622"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Terracotta","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"},{"text":"Myths & Legends","id":"THES49005"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2026PL6193","2017JU9906"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES395158"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Model","id":"AAT247279"}],[{"text":"Figure","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1765-1770","earliest":"1765-01-01","latest":"1770-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"18.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Sold on the second day of Christie's sale of Nollekens's studio effects, held on 4 July 1823, lot 71, and purchased by the sculptor Peter Rouw. Probably given by Mr Rouw to Mrs C.H. Smith. Thence by descent to Miss Zoë Gordon Smith. Given by Miss Zoë Gordon-Smith together with A.5-1944 to A.9-1944.","historicalContext":"J.T. Smith's book 'Nollekens and his Times', 1920, vol. I, p. 217 speaks of 'the bas-relief of terracotta of a marriage ceremony, modelled by Mr Nollekens from the one [an antique original] over the dining room door' at Towneley's house in Park Street. Footnote says 'The bride and groom are seen with joined hands: behind them stands Juno Pronuba.'","briefDescription":"Figure, terracotta, sketch model, Juno Pronuba, by Joseph Nollekens, England, ca. 1765-1770","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Kenworthy-Browne, S. 'Terracotta Models by Joseph Nollekens, RA', <u>The Sculpture Journal</u> vol. II, 1998, p.72-84, ill. p. 79"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bilbey, Diane with Trusted, Marjorie. <u>British Sculpture 1470 to 2000. 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