A pair of Wedgwood creamware simulated mottled-stone-ground creamware two-handled vases
A pair of Wedgwood creamware simulated mottled-stone-ground creamware two-handled vases

THIRD QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED UPPER-CASE WEDGWOOD MARKS

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A pair of Wedgwood creamware simulated mottled-stone-ground creamware two-handled vases
Third quarter of the 19th Century, impressed upper-case Wedgwood marks
With beaded rims and slender necks moulded with gilt down-turned acanthus leaf ornament, the shoulders with continuous bands of berried laurel leaves, the scroll handles with paterae terminals and entwined with gilt cisel serpents, the lower parts with up-turned stiff-leaf ornament, the flared feet on square simulated black basalt plinths applied with gilt anthemion (one with section of a snake restuck, slight damage to foot and minute chip to a laurel leaf at shoulder, slight wear to gilding)
14 in. (37.5 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Robin Reilly, The Dictionary of Wedgwood (1989) Vol. I, p. 363, pl. 480 for an unmarked Wedgwood & Bentley vase with similar surface treatment and p. 352, pl. 453 and Vol. II, col. pl. C.15 for the form.

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