WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT LIBRARY BUST OF SIR FRANCIS BACON

WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT LIBRARY BUST OF SIR FRANCIS BACON
circa 1800, impressed uppercase mark and titled on the reverse, in layered ruff and Elizabethan costume, truncated at the shoulder, on a waisted circular socle, h: 16 in.

Provenance: Paul Lauer Collection
Skinner, Marlborough, 15 July 2016, sale 2920M, lot 397.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 854.

Catalogue Note:
Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England (1618-1621), was a philosopher, writer and statesman.