TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES PORTRAIT MEDALLIONS OF PHILOSOPHERS

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TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES PORTRAIT MEDALLIONS OF PHILOSOPHERS
CIRCA 1790, IMPRESSED LOWERCASE MARKS

Depicting the Stoic Zeno and Chryssipus, truncated at the neck and named below, Jacobs Collection no. 175--2in. (5.1cm.) high, within ebonized abd burrwood frames (2)

Lot Essay

Portraits of these philosophers were respectively listed in the 1779 Wedgwood & Bentley catalogue under Class III: Kings and Illustrious Persons of Asia, Egypt and Greece, Section II: Statesmen and Philosophers of Greece Before Christ as numbers 39 and 41. Cf. Mankowitz, Wedgwood, p. 238.