TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT FIGURES, â VOLTAIREâ AND â ROUSSEAUâ
TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT FIGURES, â VOLTAIREâ AND â ROUSSEAUâ circa 1820, impressed uppercase marks and titles, both 18th Century French â philosophesâ modeled standing, on grassy mound bases, Voltaire after the sculpture by Jean-Claude Francois Rosset (1703-1786), wearing a hat, long overcoat, embroidered waistcoat and breeches, his finger marking a page in a book held in his right hand; Rousseau, modeled from a print of 1778, depicted holding a posy in his right hand, a tricorn hat tucked under his left arm, wearing a coat, vest and breeches, h: 8 5/8 in. and 10 3/4 in. (2)
Provenance: Skinner, Boston, 7 January 2011, sale 2532B, lots 180 and 175.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, nos. 522 and 622.
Catalogue Note:
For a detailed discussion on both models and on figure production at Wedgwood, see Brian Gallagher, â Basalt Sculpture in the Starr Collectionâ Ars Ceramica, pub. July 2019, no. 31, p. 19, fig. 10-11. For these examples, also see The Bernard & Lydia Starr Collection, Sothebyâ s, New York, 23 October 2019, lot 112. For caneware examples, see Aileen Dawson, â Masterpieces of Wedgwood in the British Museumâ , 1984, pp. 44-45, no. 86.
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TWO WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT FIGURES, â VOLTAIREâ AND â ROUSSEAUâ circa 1820, impressed uppercase marks and titles, both 18th Century French â philosophesâ modeled standing, on grassy mound bases, Voltaire after the sculpture by Jean-Claude Francois Rosset (1703-1786), wearing a hat, long overcoat, embroidered waistcoat and breeches, his finger marking a page in a book held in his right hand; Rousseau, modeled from a print of 1778, depicted holding a posy in his right hand, a tricorn hat tucked under his left arm, wearing a coat, vest and breeches, h: 8 5/8 in. and 10 3/4 in. (2)
Provenance: Skinner, Boston, 7 January 2011, sale 2532B, lots 180 and 175.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, nos. 522 and 622.
Catalogue Note:
For a detailed discussion on both models and on figure production at Wedgwood, see Brian Gallagher, â Basalt Sculpture in the Starr Collectionâ Ars Ceramica, pub. July 2019, no. 31, p. 19, fig. 10-11. For these examples, also see The Bernard & Lydia Starr Collection, Sothebyâ s, New York, 23 October 2019, lot 112. For caneware examples, see Aileen Dawson, â Masterpieces of Wedgwood in the British Museumâ , 1984, pp. 44-45, no. 86.
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