Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD DARK-BLUE AND WHITE JASPER-DIP BOUGH POTS CIRCA 1785-90
Auction Closed
October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD DARK-BLUE AND WHITE JASPER-DIP BOUGH POTS CIRCA 1785-90
shape no. 369, of square form, the solid-blue jasper body dipped in dark blue and applied in white relief on each side with classical figurative subjects including the 'Dipping of Achilles', impressed uppercase WEDGWOOD, letter O or circle.
Height 6⅛ in.
15.5 cm
Sotheby Park Bernet, Inc. New York, April 13, 1984, lot 583
Northeast Auctions, Plymouth, November 2001
Edwards, Ars Ceramica, 2019, no. 31, p. 55, fig. 8
Pairs of bough pots of this form enter the sale records in 1791. In addition to illustrating the present lot, Diana Edwards also notes in the caption accompanying fig. 8 that a pair in green jasper was purchased by the Duke of York in February 1792, '"When business and amusement can be made to go hand in hand:" Josiah Wedgwood's Jasper Initiative', Ars Ceramica, 2019, p. 55.