Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors
Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors
AN EXTENSIVE ASSEMBLED WEDGWOOD 'WREATHED SHELL' PART-DESSERT SERVICE, CIRCA 1820 AND 1864-82
Auction Closed
January 25, 03:59 AM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
AN EXTENSIVE ASSEMBLED WEDGWOOD 'WREATHED SHELL' PART-DESSERT SERVICE, CIRCA 1820 AND 1864-82
naturalistically modeled, painted in tones of pink and pale yellow, comprising:
three Argonauta Argo comports and two Tellina Radiata stands,
a scallop-shell oval tureen and cover, three Anornia cream-bowls and covers with Serpula finials
and three Tellina Radiata stands, five Pholas Eustatius dishes,
a Tellina Radiata dish, forty-three Pecten Japonicum plates, three Pecten maxmium shallow serving dishes, twelve Pecten shell sweetmeat dishes,
and a dolphin form candlestick, impressed uppercase WEDGWOOD marks, some pieces with
three letter date codes, various letters, various numerals including 7035 and 01565 in iron-red or yellow enamel. 80 pieces
The Estate of the late Edith Kane Baker, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. New York, 28 October 1977, lot 176 (tureen and cover)
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. New York, 24 April 1982, lot 162-164 (a comport and stand and fifteen plates)
Sotheby's New York, 9 April 1999, lot 270 (two Pholas Eustatius dishes and the Tellina Radiata dish)
Earle Vandekar of Knightsbridge, New York, bearing label (the candlestick)
An engraved illustration of 'Wreathed shell' dessert pieces, that could decorated in colored washes or could be 'richly gilt', from the Shape Drawing Book (1802 watermark) is reproduced in Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, vol. II, p. 25, pl. 14, where the author also illustrates a selection of wares of this form in the white, pl. 13. The forms remained popular through the 19th century and appear in plate 15 of the 1878 illustrated catalogue of ornamental shapes, see Reilly, op. cit., p. 431, pl. 675.
A large service of this type decorated in a similar coloring was in the Garbisch Collection sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. New York, 22 May 1980, lot 121