A large and rare Wedgwood creamware baluster vase, circa 1767

each applied with four lion masks suspending flower garlands highlighted in gilding, the circular foot moulded with gadroons, adapted as a lamp with wooden base and shade ( chips and minor losses)

Chip to rim, approx. 1in. by ½in. Some shallow chips around foot where visible. Some looses to the applied brances. Some wear to the gilding. Some surface scratches to the body
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A pair of virtually identical vases was sold Sotheby's London, 21 November,2006, lot 40. Another example with conical cover in the collection of the Wedgwood Museum, is illustrated by Gaye Blake Roberts, `To Astonish the World with Wonders, Josiah Wedgwood I 1730-1795', English Ceramics Circle Transactions, Vol.16, pt.2, 1997, p.168, pl.10.