Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Majolica Double Dolphins and Shell Centerpiece
Date code FNU for 1869
The bowl naturalistically molded as a nautilus shell, the supporting stem as two dolphins with entwined tails, above a yellow and brown shaped oval fluted base, the bowl interior in turquoise, impressed uppercase mark and A. Height 16 inches.

Modeled in two sizes, the present example being the larger of the two.

Literature:
KL001653. Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, fig. 15.4.

Reference:
Maureen Batkin, Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959, p. 45, pl. 77. Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica, p. 101, fig. 177. Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, Vol, II, pl. C37. The Wedgwood Museum, Accession no. WMT-2007-4-7.


C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection

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