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All the Variety and Perfection: The Wedgwood Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin & Suzanne Borow Rubin
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- Sale 5626
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| Philadelphia
Feb 15 | 6:00 AM EST
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| Philadelphia
Sale 5626
| Philadelphia
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Estimate$500 – $700
Glazed earthenware, stoneware, metal fittings.
Transfer-printed Pearlware with a Parian Ware figural lid. Motto spiraling up the body, which is decorated with the heads of famous poets, "By the length of his beard can you measure a man? Poet or Hero? - I doubt if you can. Bearded or shaven - Wit comes from heaven."
Impressed "WEDGWOOD" and "PEARL". Printed "R REDGRAVE, ARA" and British registry marks.
Literature
Buten, Harry, Wedgwood Rarities, Buten Museum of Wedgwood, Merion, 1969 , p. 16
Note
A similar example is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Lodon, accession number 161-1865.
Provenance
Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin and Suzanne Borow Rubin
