Live Auction 7806Lord St. Helens and Sir William FitzHerbert The Collections of a Diplomat and a Courtier
TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT ENCAUSTIC-DECORATED TWO-HANDLED VASES
Lot 506

TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT ENCAUSTIC-DECORATED TWO-HANDLED VASES

CIRCA 1780, ONE INCISED NO2

Closed22 January 2009

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GBP 3,250

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TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT ENCAUSTIC-DECORATED TWO-HANDLED VASES
CIRCA 1780, ONE INCISED No2
The krater-formed vase decorated with red figures between key-pattern and leaf borders, the oviform example with bifurcated bracket-handles and bacchic mask terminals, decorated in red, white and black enamels with Etruscan figures below a band of anthemion on a key-pattern band, damages and repairs
12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm.) high; and 16 7/8 in. (42.9 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

The print source for these vases is P. F. d'Hancarville, Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Honble William Hamilton, published in Naples in 1766-7. The subject of the krater vase is Hippothon, Antiochus and Clymenos, taken from the left hand side of plate 129 of volume I of the 1776 edition, used for the decoration of Wedgwood & Bentley's First Day's Vases.