WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT BUST OF CHRIST

WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT BUST OF CHRIST late 19th/early 20th Century, impressed uppercase mark at the back and under socle with potter's .: cypher, after a detail of Michelangelo's 'Risen Christ', his head inclined to the left, truncated at the shoulder, above a waisted circular socle, h: 8 in.

Provenance: Skinner, Boston, 3 April 1993, lot 40.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 226.

Catalogue Note:
For a similar example from the Wedgwood Museum, see Robin Reilly, 'Wedgwood' Vol. II, pl. 735. This model can also be found in parian. For a similar example at auction, see Skinner, Boston, 12 July 2008, lot 45.

Exhibitions: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, Wedgwood International Seminar, 1981.