A Pair of Wedgwood Black Dip Jasperware and Black Basalt "Panther" Vases UK, late 19th century
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Description
Stoneware, metal hardware
Shape number 1399 in the first Shape Book, after a design published by French painter Jacques Stella (1797-1657) in his "Livres des Vases..."
Cataloged by Wedgwood in the modern era as "Panther" vases
The feet and socles of black basalt, the bodies in black dip Jasper, with engine-turning
Both impressed "WEDGWOOD"
(H: 14, W: 7 1/2, D: 7 in.)
Qty: (2)
Provenance
Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin and Suzanne Borow Rubin
Literature
Gallagher, Brian D., Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries, Mint Museum, Charlotte, 2007, pp. 148-9 (for a similar example in black basalt)
The one: small (1/8") chip to top edge of mask at base of handle. The other: with possible restorations to top edges of boths masks. Both with soiling to exposed white surface in the engine-turning on lower part of body
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