A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES EWERS FOR WATER AND WINE, 'SACRED TO NEPTUNE AND BACCHUS'

19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK AND S TO EACH

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A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES EWERS FOR WATER AND WINE, 'SACRED TO NEPTUNE AND BACCHUS'
19th century, impressed uppercase mark and s to each
In the Renaissance style, each of baluster form with shell-moulded shoulder and neck, the mouth extending into entwined handles, that for Water with a triton seated on the shoulder, his head coming up between the handles, a tail coiled on each side, his hands holding as if reins the tips of a dolphin's fins, its mask at the shoulder beneath the spout, swags of seaweed draped on each side, the lower portion with siff leaf tips beneath an oak-leaf band, the fluted socle with beaded collar and a wreath of overlapping stiff leaf tips around the circumference, raised on a further square base, the sides with strapwork decoration; that for wine similarly decorated with a satyr, goatmask and swags of fruiting grape vine
18.1/8in. (46cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The present models are based on designs of 1778 provided to the factory by John Flaxman and based on designs by the noted French sculptor, Claude-Michel known as Clodion. The ewers were produced into the 20th century in a variety of materials including black basaltes, jasper, caneware and majolica. See Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, 1989, vol I, pp. 408, fig. 556, plates 716, 994 and C182.

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