Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT 'ENCAUSTIC'-DECORATED TWO-HANDLED VASE, COVER AND PIERCED COVER LATE 18TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT 'ENCAUSTIC'-DECORATED TWO-HANDLED VASE, COVER AND PIERCED COVER LATE 18TH CENTURY
of classical form with a waisted trumpet neck, the loop handles with molded 'studded' terminals to simulate metalwork and the bulbous body painted in terracotta-red and white on the front with three figures, on the reverse with a large anthemion and on each side with a leafy branch, with classical ornament bands, the interior glazed, impressed uppercase WEDGWOOD.
Height 16⅝ in.
42.23 cm
Collection of Olivia P. Lenhart, no. 614, bearing label
The Estate of Olivia P. Lenhart, Christie's New York, January 26, 1987, lot 208
See Plate 44 of The Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Honble Wm Hamilton, P. F. d'Hancarville (ed.), Naples, 1766, Vol. 1, for an engraving showing a cross section with measurements of this form. The three figures appear on a different vase in black and white plate 72, and plate 74, a large double-page color plate, in the same volume.