A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES AND ROSSO ANITICO CYLINDRICAL SPILL VASE

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A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES AND ROSSO ANITICO CYLINDRICAL SPILL VASE
CIRCA 1820, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK AND INCISED A

Applied with figures of 'Springtime' and 'The Spinner' from designs of Domestic Employment by Elizabeth, Lady Templetown, Jacobs Collection no. 8--4½in. (11.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Reilly, Wedgwood, Vol. 1, pp. 604 & 605, for a discussion of the sesing contributions of Lady Templetown, Emma Crew and Lady Diana Beauclerk, woman artists whose sentimental subjects appealed to traditional female taste, a burgeoning part of Josiah Wedgwood's business from the 1780's onward