A WEDGWOOD ROSSO ANTICO PORTRAIT BUST OF JOHN LOCKE

Details

A WEDGWOOD ROSSO ANTICO PORTRAIT BUST OF JOHN LOCKE
CIRCA 1785, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK

Named on the stove pipe support, Jacobs Collection no. 229--8¾in. (22.2cm.) high, including waisted socle

Literature

Reilly, Wedgwood, Vol. 1, plate C128, 748
Buten, 18th Century Wedgwood, fig. 198

Exhibited

Josiah Wedgwood: Jubilee Exhibition, no. 65.1

Lot Essay

Cf. Dr. Charles Avery, 'Missing and Presumed Lost: Some Ivory Portraits by David LeMarchand, 1674-1726', Country Life, June 6, 1985, pp. 1562-1564, for a discussion of the ivory portrait on which the present Rosso Antico example, made from moulds made by Hoskins & Grant is based.

Wedgwood's catalogue of 1779 lists the model as available in three sizes. The most popular body for the portrait was black basaltes. Rosso antico examples are rare.