A WEDGWOOD BLUE AND WHITE JASPER PLAQUE

19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK

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A WEDGWOOD BLUE AND WHITE JASPER PLAQUE
19th century, impressed uppercase mark
Depicting Priam kneeling before Achilles begging the body of his son Hector, within an ebonized and giltwood frame
11 x 24in. (28.9 x 61cm.)

Lot Essay

See Rathbone, Wedgwood, Buten Museum of Wedgwood reprint, Merion, PA, 1968, plate XI for a similar example in sage-green.

The present design was adapted by John Flaxman for Wedgwood from that of the antique sarcophagus which originally housed the Barberini Vase.