CIRCA 1785-95, UPPERCASE WEDGWOOD MARK AND INCISED 128 TO EACH

Name: A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT ENCAUSTIC-DECORATED VOLUTE KRATER VASES
Brand: CIRCA 1785-95, UPPERCASE WEDGWOOD MARK AND INCISED 128 TO EACH
Price: 8500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 10,710

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GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000

Closed: 23 Oct 2024

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A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT ENCAUSTIC-DECORATED VOLUTE KRATER VASES

CIRCA 1785-95, UPPERCASE WEDGWOOD MARK AND INCISED 128 TO EACH

Price Realised GBP 10,710

Closed: 23 Oct 2024

Price Realised GBP 10,710

Closed: 23 Oct 2024

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Each with upright scroll handles moulded with mask handles, decorated in 'encaustic' enamels with a Classical figure in a horse drawn chariot, flanked by figures, palmettes and borders of anthemion and Greek Key pattern
13 in. (33 cm.) high overall

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Lot Essay

Wedgwood's red figure, or 'encaustic' decoration on black basalt stoneware was inspired directly by by Anne-Calude-Philippe, comte de Caylus, which was published in Paris, in seven volumes between 1752 and 1767, and , a four volume catalogue of Sir William Hamilton's (1730-1803) celebrated collection of ancient Greek and Italian vases, complied by Hamilton and Pierre d'Hancarville and published in 1766-7. The form of the present vase is copied from a 4th century BC Apulian vase from the collection of Sir William Hamilton. For a Wedgwood encaustic-decorated basalt vase of 'volute-krater' form see Robin Reilly, , London, 1989, Vol. I, p. 423, pl. 601.