Lot Essay
The present vase, modelled after an Etruscan wedding vase, corresponds to shape ?? in Wedgwood's First Shapes Book.
Details
A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES ENCAUSTIC-DECORATED LEBES GAMIKOS
CIRCA 1830, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK AND INCISED Z AND 93,
SHAPE NO. --
Decorated in encaustic white with a man sitting and holding a basket and a branch of hyssop, Jacobs Collection no. 43 (the cover replaced)--8¼in. (21cm.) high
CIRCA 1830, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK AND INCISED Z AND 93,
SHAPE NO. --
Decorated in encaustic white with a man sitting and holding a basket and a branch of hyssop, Jacobs Collection no. 43 (the cover replaced)--8¼in. (21cm.) high
Provenance
Catherine G. and Samuel H. Oster; sale Sotheby & Co., London, November 30, 1971, lot 159
Literature
Godden, British Pottery, plate 201