THREE WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY BLACK BASALTES INTAGLIOS

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THREE WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY BLACK BASALTES INTAGLIOS
CIRCA 1774, IMPRESSED LOWERCASE MARKS

Depicting a portrait of Neptune, a lion and Neptune riding a charriot drawn by hippocamps, within contemporary gilt-copper bezels, Jacobs Collection no. 348; together with Six Wedgwood & Bentley Black Basaltes Portrait Medallions of Roman Notables, including Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Sylla, Marcus Tulius Cicero, Anthony and Cleopatra, Regulus and Marcus Junius Brutus, Jacobs Collection no. 216 (9)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., New York, June 21, 1980, lot 514 (the intaglios)

Lot Essay

The intaglios are respectively listed in the 1779 Wedgwood & Bentley Catalogue under Class I: Cameos and Intaglios, Section II: Intaglios as numbers 336, 59 and 312. The portrait medallions are respectively listed in the same catalogue under Class IV: The Ancient Roman History after medals by Dassier as numbers 30, 42, 44, 55, 23 and 55. Cf. Mankowitz, Wedgwood, pp. 224, 227, 240-241.