Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection

Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection

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A WEDGWOOD BLUE AND WHITE JASPERWARE VASE CIRCA 1785

Auction Closed

October 23, 06:38 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 USD

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A WEDGWOOD BLUE AND WHITE JASPERWARE VASE CIRCA 1785


vase shape no. 256, in solid dark-blue jasper, modeled with a figure of Cupid kneeling at the base of a tree trunk forming the vase, applied with white oak-leaves, impressed uppercase WEDGWOOD.

Height 8⅝ in.

22 cm

Collection of Theodore and Rosalind Spak, Miami, April 1984, no. 137, bearing label

An entry in the oven books on January 4th 1783 is possibly the first reference to this model and its pair, "256 6& 5 Cuped flower pots lalock & green leaves and white", referenced in Robert Emmerson, 'Wedgwood's Oven Book', Ars Ceramica, 2000, No. 16, p. 23, who illustrates a pair from the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool, fig. 23 and cover (one of the pair).