A Wedgwood Caneware "Beehive Bench" Honey Pot UK, circa 1810

Stoneware
Impressed "WEDGWOOD"

H: 7, W: 5 3/4, D: 6 3/4 in.

Property from the Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin and Suzanne Borow Rubin

Exhibited

"Wedgwood: 250 Years of Innvoation and Artistry", DAR Museum, Washington, DC, 2009-10

Literature

Adams, Elizabeth Bryding, The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood Collection, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 1992, p. 274, cat. 444
Reilly, Robin, Wedgwood: A New Illustrated Dictionary, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 1995, p. 223

Note

Reilly, in the Wedgwood Dictionary says, "This 'Beehive Bench' was continued in production for at least fifty years [from its appearance in an 1802 Oven Book] but –probably because of its excessively vunerable shape– surviving examples are rare."

Provenance

Collection of J.D. & Louise Trabue

Sotheby's, Chinese Export Porcelain and English Pottery, New York, January 27, 1988

Skinner, European Furniture and Decorative Arts, Boston, January 15, 2005, Lot 81

Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin and Suzanne Borow Rubin