TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES PORTRAIT MEDALLIONS OF SYRIANS

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TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES PORTRAIT MEDALLIONS OF SYRIANS
CIRCA 1790, IMPRESSED LOWERCASE MARKS

Depicting Antiochus Theos, King of Syria and Antiochus Hierax, truncated at the neck and named below, Jacobs Collection no. 126--2 1/8in. (5.3cm.) high, mounted against velvet within a carved wood frame

Provenance

A Pennsylvania Collector, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., New York, January 10, 1975, lot 121

Lot Essay

Portraits of these kings were respectively listed in the 1779 Wedgwood & Bentley catalogue under Class III: Kings and Illustrious Persons of Asia, Egypt and Greece, Section I: Kings and Queens of Asia Minor, Greece, & C. as numbers 22 and 23. Cf. Mankowitz, Wedgwood, p. 237.