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Lot 264
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A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES CANDLESTICKS
Details
A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES CANDLESTICKS
CIRCA 1810, UPPERCASE IMPRESSED MARKS
Modelled as three sphinx monopodia supporting a candle nozzle on shaped triangular base, Jacobs Collection no. 518--
6in. (15.2cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., April 13, 1984, lot 556
Lot Essay
Cf. Elizabeth Chellis, 'From the Nile to the Trent',
Anitque Magazine
, Vol. LVI, no. 4, October 1949, p. 262, fig. 10 for another example