Stand

Dateca. 1785

Maker Wedgwood (Est. 1759)

OriginEngland, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Etruria

MediumJasperware (dry-bodied stoneware)

DimensionsH: 5/8"; Diam: 4"

Credit LineFunds donated by The Antique Collectors' Guild

Object number1984-33,B

DescriptionFlowerpot of trumpet form, with round bottom. With applied gadrooning on foot and rectangular ring. With round hole to center of bottom. The mouth with a slightly everted flange of sorts. The body with engine turned decoration creating a checkerboard pattern, with applied white four-lobe flowers to the "blank" spaces. With a frieze of anthemion leaves. The everted rim with a design of slightly overlapping acanthus leaves. With associated stand of bell shape, with rectangular foot ring. The top and bottom demarcated with incised beads. Between, laurel leaves. The body a solid light blue jasperware with applied motifs in white.
Inscribedno
Markings"WEDGWOOD" impressed to underside.
ProvenanceEx Coll: Bryan
with Art Trading, Ltd., New York

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