Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A WEDGWOOD AND BENTLEY VERY LARGE BLACK BASALT BUST OF THE DUTCH JURIST HUGO GROTIUS CIRCA 1775-80
Auction Closed
October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A WEDGWOOD AND BENTLEY VERY LARGE BLACK BASALT BUST OF THE DUTCH JURIST HUGO GROTIUS CIRCA 1775-80
after Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt (1566-1641), wearing a large layered ruff over a doublet, raised on a separate socle base, the reverse of the shoulder with impressed uppercase GROTIUS, over letter H., the underside of socle with uppercase WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY mark.
Height 20⅜ in.
50.7 cm
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. New York, December 1, 1977, lot 66
Gallagher, Ars Ceramica, 2019, no. 31, p. 18, fig. 9
Gallagher, 2019, op. cit., writes that in September 1779, an order of six large busts, including a Grotius, was fulfilled for the Dutch market and which came through Wedgwood's Amsterdam agent Lambertus van Veldhuysen. A bust of Grotius is also included in Wedgwood and Bentley's 1779 trade catalogue. The source for the bust is likely the 1631 oil painting by Michiel Jansz. Van Mierevelt (1576-1641). A second bust of Grotius of this large size from the Bernheim Collection was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, February 26, 1972, lot 116.