A WEDGWOOD AND BENTLEY VARIEGATED OVOID CARYATIC VASE

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A WEDGWOOD AND BENTLEY VARIEGATED OVOID CARYATIC VASE
CIRCA 1775, IMPRESSED LOWERCASE MARK, SHAPE NO. 233

With ball finial, the creamware body with marbleized surface-crystaline agate decoration in mottled black and brown slips, the shoulders moulded and gilt with laurel, the lower body similarly decorated with swags joining the moulded and gilt caryatid side handles, on a white terracotta base, Jacobs Collection no. 300 (finial replaced, some restoration to base)--9¾in. (24.8cm.) cm.) high

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Zeitlin

Exhibited

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1962, no. 315

Lot Essay

Ovoid vases with caryatid handles similar in design to Wedgwood examples (shape no. 233 in the First Shapes Book), were produced in the 18th century in a variety of materials. They were made at Derby in porcelain, an example of which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has in its collection a Blue John stone pair ormolu-mounted by Mathew Boulton circa 1770. Cf. Nicholas Goodison, Ormolus - The Work of Mathew Boulton, London, 1974. Cf. also Timothy Clifford, 'Sources of Designs for Vases', Burlington Magazine, Vol. ??, 19??, pp. ?? for a general discussion of the model and Reilly, Wedgwood, Vol. I, plate 533 for a Wedgwood and Bentley black basaltes example.