Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT RECTANGULAR PLAQUES, 'BACCHANALIAN TRIUMPH' AND 'BACCHANALIAN SACRIFICE' LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT RECTANGULAR PLAQUES, 'BACCHANALIAN TRIUMPH' AND 'BACCHANALIAN SACRIFICE' LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
modeled in high relief, 'Triumph' with fourteen bacchic figures slaughtering a goat, impressed uppercase WEDGWOOD to reverse and underside edge of scene; 'Sacrifice', with eight female figures and six putti figures dancing, five times impressed uppercase WEDGWOOD, framed.
Plaque widths 21 and 21⅛ in.
53.3; and 53.7
Bacchanalian Triumph: Kadison Collection, bearing label
These plaques were copied from two bas-reliefs by Clodion and are first listed in the Wedgwood and Bentley 1773 catalogue. Claude Michel Clodion (1738-1814) was a contemporary of Josiah Wedgwood and his metal work forms were often emulated by ceramic manufacturers. Another example of a black basalt tablet of 'Bacchanalian Sacrifice'. from the Kadison Collection, and a white terracotta stoneware tablet of 'Bacchanalian Triumph'. in the Dwight & Lucille Beeson Collection, are illustrated in Reilly, Wedgwood, London, 1989, Vol. I, p. 486, no. 696 and p. 372, no. 493.