A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT 'ENCAUSTIC'-DECORATED TWO-HANDLED AMPHORA LATE 18TH CENTURY

A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT 'ENCAUSTIC'-DECORATED TWO-HANDLED AMPHORA LATE 18TH CENTURY

of classical form with a waisted trumpet neck affixed with two handles, painted in terracotta-red and white with two classical maidens each holding a thyrsus and either a torch or a fan beneath an anthemion border around the shoulder, impressed uppercase WEDGWOOD and numeral 439.

Height 10¼ in.

26.1 cm