A pair of Marieberg pearlware urn-shaped vases and covers

CIRCA 1785, ONE INCISED MB/FFM (?)

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A pair of Marieberg pearlware urn-shaped vases and covers
Circa 1785, one incised MB/ffm (?)
After the Wedgwood & Bentley models, with short gilt scroll handles to the shoulders suspending swags of gilt husks, the fronts each with an oval medallion moulded with Aesculapius before the Pallium and Sacrifice to Aesculapius, on circular spreading feet edged with radiating gilt foliage on square mottled brown bases, the covers with gilt ball finials and a band of berried laurel (one vase with two cracks to shoulder, the other vase with restoration to base near stem and with slight crack to shoulder, both with some retouching to gilding, one finial repaired and with part of inside of flange of cover lacking)
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Robin Reilly, op. cit. (1989), vol. I, p. 405, pl. 549 (right) for a Wedgwood and Bentley black basalt vase of this form, and also see Gerhard Wietek, op. cit. (1972), no. 20 for a vase of related form produced at Stralsund.

See illustration on page 54.

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