A Wedgwood Encaustic-Decorated Black Basalt Ale Jug with Sphinxes UK, 1850s
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Description
Stoneware
In the form of an Attic Greek oinochoe with black-figure decoration. Produced specially the Cambridge retailer Woollard and Hattersley
Impressed "WEDGWOOD"
(H: 7 5/8, Dia: 6 in.)
Qty: (1)
Provenance
Shulman Collection
Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin and Suzanne Borow Rubin
Literature
Adams, Elizabeth Bryding, The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood Collection, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 1992, p. 223 (cat. 201, for an example of the form, with a citation for the source of the decoration design)
Reilly, Robin, Wedgwood: A New Illustrated Dictionary, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 1995, p. 146 (for a similar example)
Edge losses to red slip, primarily at rim of trefoil spout; one 4 in. horizontal scuff to body, along with some other minor scuffs throughout.
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