WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT â LIMITED EDITIONâ OVAL PLAQUE, â THE FRIGHTENED HORSEâ
WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT â LIMITED EDITIONâ OVAL PLAQUE, â THE FRIGHTENED HORSEâ
dated 1963, impressed uppercase mark and NB, number 3 of 20, after the painting by George Stubbs, R.A., identified on the reverse, molded in relief with a lion and a stallion in a windswept landscape, h: 9 1/4 x l: 15 1/2 in., within a raw silk-slub fabric matt and giltwood frame, h: 23 1/4 x w: 29 1/2 in.
Provenance: Skinner, Boston, 11 January 2014, sale 2698B, lot 388.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 723.
Catalogue Note:
For the example commissioned by Harry Buten, now in the Birmingham Museum of Art, accession no. AFI.1755.2008, see Brian Gallagher, 'Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries', exhibition catalogue, p. 166-167, no. 53.
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WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT â LIMITED EDITIONâ OVAL PLAQUE, â THE FRIGHTENED HORSEâ
dated 1963, impressed uppercase mark and NB, number 3 of 20, after the painting by George Stubbs, R.A., identified on the reverse, molded in relief with a lion and a stallion in a windswept landscape, h: 9 1/4 x l: 15 1/2 in., within a raw silk-slub fabric matt and giltwood frame, h: 23 1/4 x w: 29 1/2 in.
Provenance: Skinner, Boston, 11 January 2014, sale 2698B, lot 388.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 723.
Catalogue Note:
For the example commissioned by Harry Buten, now in the Birmingham Museum of Art, accession no. AFI.1755.2008, see Brian Gallagher, 'Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries', exhibition catalogue, p. 166-167, no. 53.