Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD AND BENTLEY CREAMWARE 'PORPHYRY' TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS CIRCA 1780
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October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD AND BENTLEY CREAMWARE 'PORPHYRY' TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS CIRCA 1780
vase shape no. 29, each of inverted pear shape, affixed on either side at the shoulder with fruiting foliate scroll handles, joined by a modeled laurel wreath band, reserving creamware medallions showing The Three Graces and the Sacrifice to Aesculapius, the Greek god of medicine and healing, reserved on a creamware body mottled and marbled in shades of underglaze green, brown and black to simulate porphyry, raised on a black basalt square base, the base with applied medallions embossed WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY ETRURIA.
Height 12⅞ in.
32.8 cm
Christie's London, October 1, 1990, lot 63
A pair of black basalt vases of this form reserving medallions of Apollo and Marsyas, in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, is illustrated in Diana Edwards, Black Basalt, Wedgwood and Contemporary Manufacturers, Woodbridge, 1994, p. 42, fig. 9.