Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT 'ENCAUSTIC'-DECORATED VASE CIRCA 1800
Auction Closed
October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT 'ENCAUSTIC'-DECORATED VASE CIRCA 1800
with a waisted trumpet neck, the domed shoulder affixed with a strap handle, painted in terracotta-red and white with a male and female figure, the broad lower section with a band of leafy vine between egg and dart edged stepped rims, and an anthemion below the handle, impressed uppercase WEDGWOOD.
Height 11¾ in.
29.7 cm
Collection of Olivia P. Lenhart, bearing label
The Estate of Olivia P. Lenhart, Christie's New York, January 26, 1987, lot 210
de Young Museum, 1971, no. 172, bearing label, illustrated in the Seminar Catalogue, 1981, p. 44, case. 20
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, bearing label
The two figures are taken from a larger composition in The Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Honble Wm Hamilton, P. F. d'Hancarville (ed.), 1766, Vol. II, Col pl. 45.