WEDGWOOD DEEP-BLUE DIP JASPERWARE PORTLAND VASE
WEDGWOOD DEEP-BLUE DIP JASPERWARE PORTLAND VASE 19th Century, impressed uppercase mark, after the Antique, applied in white relief with a continuous frieze of classical undraped figures at leisure, a serpent and a putto in flight, the underside with a half-length portrait of a man in a Phrygian cap, h: 10 in.
Provenance: With Seal Simons, Philadelphia, PA,1976.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 48.
Catalogue Note:
Designed after the Antique Alexandrian cased glass amphora, circa A.D. 50, now in the British Museum. This iconic form was first excavated in Rome in 1580 and remained in the Barberini Palace for two centuries before being moved to England, where the Duke of Portland purchased it. In 1786, he lent it to Josiah Wedgwood and approximately four years later Wedgwood produced the first jasperware examples. For a similar example, see Skinner, Boston, 12 July 2008, sale 2417, lot 85A.
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WEDGWOOD DEEP-BLUE DIP JASPERWARE PORTLAND VASE 19th Century, impressed uppercase mark, after the Antique, applied in white relief with a continuous frieze of classical undraped figures at leisure, a serpent and a putto in flight, the underside with a half-length portrait of a man in a Phrygian cap, h: 10 in.
Provenance: With Seal Simons, Philadelphia, PA,1976.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 48.
Catalogue Note:
Designed after the Antique Alexandrian cased glass amphora, circa A.D. 50, now in the British Museum. This iconic form was first excavated in Rome in 1580 and remained in the Barberini Palace for two centuries before being moved to England, where the Duke of Portland purchased it. In 1786, he lent it to Josiah Wedgwood and approximately four years later Wedgwood produced the first jasperware examples. For a similar example, see Skinner, Boston, 12 July 2008, sale 2417, lot 85A.
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