A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES CANDLESTICKS

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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