Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A WEDGWOOD BLUE AND WHITE JASPERWARE FOOTED BOWL CIRCA 1787
Auction Closed
October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A WEDGWOOD BLUE AND WHITE JASPERWARE FOOTED BOWL CIRCA 1787
shape no. 325, the solid-blue body with a lapidary polished interior, applied in relief around the exterior with 'Baccanalian Boys' alternating with fruiting vine swags, impressed uppercase WEDGWOOD.
Diameter 9 in.
23 cm
Lloyd Bleier Collection, no. J278, bearing label
Skinner Boston, April 25, 2003, lot 248
Emmerson, 2000, No. 16, fig. 33
A similar example is illustrated in Emmerson, Ars Ceramica, No. 16, 2000, p. 28, fig. 33, where the author notes the bowl is mentioned in the Wedgwood oven books on March 16, 1787, with its shape number, and in an earlier listing on January 19, 1787, "'15 [blue and white] punch bowls 2 quarts Greaps festoons and figers", with a sketch.'"