A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES WATER EWER, 'SACRED TO NEPTUNE'

19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE WEDGWOOD MARK

Details

A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES WATER EWER, 'SACRED TO NEPTUNE'
19th century, impressed uppercase Wedgwood mark
In the Renaissance style, of baluster form with shell-moulded shoulder and neck, flanked by an entwined seaweed handle, a triton seated on the shoulder and grasping the fins of a dolphin perched on the front of the ewer, the body with seaweed swags above an oak-leaf band and stiff leaf-tips surmounting a beaded collar, on a conforming foot and square base
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high

Provenance

with William Courtney & Son, Birkenhead, England, 1991.

Literature

R. P. Wunder, 'Living with Antiques: Villa San Maurizio in Southern California', The Magazine Antiques, December 1999, p. 844, pl. IX.

Lot Essay

The present ewer is a pair with 'Sacred to Bacchus', a wine jug, after a model by John Flaxman of 1775. The original design was thought to be taken from Clodion but the source could be earlier, perhaps stemming from Renaissance bronzes.

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