TWO WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY LIGHT-BLUE SOLID JASPERWARE OVAL MEDALLIONS 'MEDUSA MASK' AND 'SACRIFICE TO AESCULAPIUS'

TWO WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY LIGHT-BLUE SOLID JASPERWARE OVAL MEDALLIONS 'MEDUSA MASK' AND 'SACRIFICE TO AESCULAPIUS' circa 1775, impressed WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY marks, the first applied in white relief with the head of the monstrous Gorgon, depicted as a winged human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair, h: 2 1/2 x w: 2 1/4 in.; the second emblematic of healing, molded with two classical figures with a snake and insect before a sacrificial brazier, h: 3 1/4 in. (2)

Provenance: With Leo Kaplan Ltd., New York City, 2006 - Medusa.
The Kanter Collection (label) - Aesculapius.
Skinner, Boston, 2 April 2018, sale 3088T, lot 1330 - Aesculapius.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, nos. 467 and 923.

Catalogue Note:
For a related wax model of Medusa see, the Victoria & Albert Museum, accession no. WE.6466-2014. For a similar Aesculapius see, the Wedgwood International Seminar, 'The American Wedgwoodian', September 1964, Vol. I, no. 6, p. 59. Also see, The Dwight & Lucille Beeson Collection, Birmingham Museum of Art, p. 343, cat. no. 818, here titled, 'Aesculapius Treating a Youth'.