IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS AND X TO BOWLS AND STANDS, CIRCA 1812

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TWO WEDGWOOD 'WHITE WARE' CREAM BOWLS, COVERS AND STANDS
IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS AND X TO BOWLS AND STANDS, CIRCA 1812
From the 'Wreathed Shell' dessert service, each modelled as an 'Anornia' shell with 'Serpula' finial, the stand as a 'Tellina' shell washed in pink, yellow, orange and pale-brown enamels
9¼ in. (23.5cm.) wide, the stand (6)

Provenance

With Rochelle Thomas, New York, Palm Beach

Lot Essay

See Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, Vol. II, London, 1989, p. 25, fig. 13 and 14 for an an illustration of this form and for an engraved illustration from the 1802 Shape Drawing Book; p. 358 for an example at the Merseyside Museums; p. 431 for a design drawing under comports in the '1878' Illustrate Catalogue of Ornamental Shapes - as a sugar or cream bowl; and p. 577 for a variegated lustre example.

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