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CIRCA 1825, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND MOUSTACHE MARK
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A WEDGWOOD TRICOLOR JASPER BISCUIT BOX AND SILVER-PLATED COVER
CIRCA 1825, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND MOUSTACHE MARK
Cylindrical with silvered metal rim, handle and cover, sprigged with yellow diamond-pattern panels and alternate white scrolling leaves on the green-dip ground; together with three other Wedgwood dry-bodied wares, including a green-dip bowl of slightly earlier date sprigged after designs by Lady Templetown above the lower portion turned and cut with stripes; a 19th century brown smear-glazed flattened globular teapot with harp handle and angled spout issuing from a surround of stiff leaves, sprigged in white with similar classical vignettes; and a 20th century dark blue-dip jardiniere sprigged with classical maidens beneath lion masks with fixed rings in their mouths suspending flower swags looped between each figure (6)
CIRCA 1825, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND MOUSTACHE MARK
Cylindrical with silvered metal rim, handle and cover, sprigged with yellow diamond-pattern panels and alternate white scrolling leaves on the green-dip ground; together with three other Wedgwood dry-bodied wares, including a green-dip bowl of slightly earlier date sprigged after designs by Lady Templetown above the lower portion turned and cut with stripes; a 19th century brown smear-glazed flattened globular teapot with harp handle and angled spout issuing from a surround of stiff leaves, sprigged in white with similar classical vignettes; and a 20th century dark blue-dip jardiniere sprigged with classical maidens beneath lion masks with fixed rings in their mouths suspending flower swags looped between each figure (6)
Provenance
Purchased from Margot Authentic Antiques, St. Louis, Missouri, 19 September 1978 (the silver-plate mounted biscuit box)
Purchased from Margot Authentic Antiques, St. Louis, Missouri, 11 May 1979 (the green-dip bowl)
Purchased from Margot Authentic Antiques, St. Louis, Missouri, 11 May 1979 (the green-dip bowl)
Literature
Patricia E. Kane, "Living with Antiques: A Saint Louis couple collects," The Magazine Antiques (May 2002), p. 120, pl. XI.