Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD AND BENTLEY CREAMWARE PORPHYRY TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS CIRCA 1768-80
Auction Closed
October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
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A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD AND BENTLEY CREAMWARE PORPHYRY TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS CIRCA 1768-80
vase shape no. 41, of urn shape and fluted form, the neck with spiral fluting, applied around the shoulder in white with suspended drapery tied in bows, affixed on either side with the female sphinx head forming a handle, the creamware body modeled in shades of green and black to simulate porphyry, raised on a black basalt square base, embossed WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY: ETRURIA. circular marks.
Heights 10⅞ in.
27.7 cm
The Milton Milestone Collection of early Wedgwood Pottery, Sotheby-Parke Bernet, New York, April 6, 1976, lot 203
Collection of Theodore and Rosalind Spak, Miami, no. 137, bearing label inscribed 126, 1984
A further vase of this form was in the Oster Collection, sold at Sotheby's London, May 16, 1972, lot 386, formerly in the Ethel G. Douglas Collection, sold at Parke-Bernet, New York in 1940. For the form in black basalt see Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, London, 1989, Vol. I, p. 406, no. 551.