A Wedgwood solid pale-blue and white Jasper snake-handled vase

CIRCA 1790

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A Wedgwood solid pale-blue and white Jasper snake-handled vase
Circa 1790
The urn-shaped body modelled in white relief after designs by Charles le Brun with 'Venus in Her Chariot Drawn by Swans' and to the reverse with 'Cupids Watering the Swans', within laurel-garland, stiff-leaf and anthemion borders beneath a slender neck rising to a flared beaded rim flanked by two snake-entwined reeded handles, on a slender circular foot and square base (one snake with restored head, the other with restored tail and hairline crack, one bead to rim restored, chips and pieces lacking to laurel garland to shoulder, other slight chips to relief), impressed WEDGWOOD and V marks
15¾in. (40cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Robin Reilly, Wedgwood (1989), Vol. II, col. pl. C181, for an example in the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston; see also Wolf Mankowitz, Wedgwood (1953), fig. 78.

A similar vase was sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1973, lot 176.

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