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A WEDGWOOD WHITE 'PORCELAIN' THREE-VASE GARNITURE AND A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD BLUE AND WHITE JASPER VASES AND COVERS

IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND MOUSTACHE MARKS, SHAPE 384, CIRCA 1820 AND 1840 RESPECTIVELY

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A WEDGWOOD WHITE 'PORCELAIN' THREE-VASE GARNITURE AND A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD BLUE AND WHITE JASPER VASES AND COVERS
IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND MOUSTACHE MARKS, SHAPE 384, CIRCA 1820 AND 1840 RESPECTIVELY
The garniture of a central vase flanked by a similar smaller pair, each of tapering cylindrical form with pierced liner and sprigged in dark blue jasper with paterae above a band of Greek key pattern, stiff leaf-tips alternating with wheat on the flaring cylindrical foot, 6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, the central vase, 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high, the pair; each of the pair of vases with acorn finial and dome cover above the tapering cylindrical body applied with alternating stiff leaf-tips and branches of bell-flowers beneath a border of entrelac enclosing flowerheads, the circular base with stiff leaf tips, 10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high (7)

Provenance

with Blair's Brick House, Williamsburg, Virginia, 16 June 1941.

Special notice

Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

Lot Essay

See Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, London, 1989, vol. II, p. 546, fig. 950 for a pair of bough-pots of similar shape sprigged in green in the Dwight and Lucille Beeson Collection, Birmingham Museum, Alabama and p. 514, fig. 876 for a white stoneware teapot and cover sprigged with the same decoration as the pair of vases and covers found in the collection of Temple Newsam House, Leeds.

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