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A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD PALE-BLUE JASPER DOLPHIN VASES, COVERS AND STOPPERS
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A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD PALE-BLUE JASPER DOLPHIN VASES, COVERS AND STOPPERS

CIRCA 1780, IMPRESSED UPPER-CASE MARK

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A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD PALE-BLUE JASPER DOLPHIN VASES, COVERS AND STOPPERS
CIRCA 1780, IMPRESSED UPPER-CASE MARK
The solid pale-blue-ground applied in white relief, each with flared finial and stopper formed as a flowerhead with stamen and overlapping petals and berried leaves above a band of beads and radiating stiff leaves, the shallow bowl with spreading shoulder applied with three shells supporting cylindrical nozzles above bosses reserved on a guilloche pattern band suspending festoons of leaves and shells with a harebell terminal, supported by three dolphins above a shaped triangular base (one stopper with minor restoration to plug, one cover restored to base of finial, the other cover broken and restored, scattered chipping to edges of some shells and footrim)
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high (2)
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According to Catherine Beth Lippert in her catalogue Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987, p. 244, Wedgwood makes the first known reference to dolphin vases of this type. In a latter of 4th June 1770 Wedgwood asks his partner Thomas Bentley "Have you sold the Dolphin Tripods, shall we make more of them". The author also illustrated an identical agate ware example of the present vase (p. 246, fig. 82). Several similar designs with a variety of purposes are recorded in the Wedgwood pattern books of the period.

See the agateware examples also from Stoneleigh sold in these Rooms 2nd November 1981 lot 339. For vases of similar form in 'porphyry' ware from the Wedgwood & Bentley period see Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, (London, 1989), Vol. II, pp. 356 and 357, pls. 462 and 463.