Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT 'ENCAUSTIC'-DECORATED VASE CIRCA 1800
Auction Closed
October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT 'ENCAUSTIC'-DECORATED VASE CIRCA 1800
with a waisted trumpet neck, the domed shoulder affixed with a strap handle, painted in terracotta-red and white with a male and female figure, the broad lower section with a band of leafy vine between egg and dart edged stepped rims, and an anthemion below the handle, impressed uppercase WEDGWOOD.
Height 11¾ in.
29.7 cm
Collection of Olivia P. Lenhart, bearing label
The Estate of Olivia P. Lenhart, Christie's New York, January 26, 1987, lot 210
The two figures are taken from a larger composition in The Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Honble Wm Hamilton, P. F. d'Hancarville (ed.), 1766, Vol. II, Col pl. 45.