All the Variety and Perfection: The Wedgwood Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin & Suzanne Borow Rubin

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A Wedgwood Encaustic-Decorated Black Basalt Hamilton Vase UK, 1790s

A Wedgwood Encaustic-Decorated Black Basalt Hamilton Vase UK, 1790s

Stoneware
A small-scale copy of the famous Apullian Volute Krater, in the British Museum collection (BM 1772,0320.14.+)
Impressed "WEDGWOOD"

H: 10, W: 7 1/4, D: 5 7/16 in.

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

Literature

Reilly, Robin, Wedgwood: A New Illustrated Dictionary, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 1995, p. 252 (for a similar example with a simplified form of this decoration)

Note

This was the first important piece of Wedgwood acquired by the Rubins, purchased from the storied Philadelphia Wedgwood dealer, Seal Simons.

Provenance

Seal Simons, Philadelphia

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

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A Wedgwood Encaustic-Decorated Black Basalt Hamilton Vase UK, 1790s

Stoneware
A small-scale copy of the famous Apullian Volute Krater, in the British Museum collection (BM 1772,0320.14.+)
Impressed "WEDGWOOD"

H: 10, W: 7 1/4, D: 5 7/16 in.

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

Literature

Reilly, Robin, Wedgwood: A New Illustrated Dictionary, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 1995, p. 252 (for a similar example with a simplified form of this decoration)

Note

This was the first important piece of Wedgwood acquired by the Rubins, purchased from the storied Philadelphia Wedgwood dealer, Seal Simons.

Provenance

Seal Simons, Philadelphia

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

All the Variety and Perfection: The Wedgwood Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin & Suzanne Borow Rubin

A Wedgwood Encaustic-Decorated Black Basalt Hamilton Vase UK, 1790s

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A Wedgwood Encaustic-Decorated Black Basalt Hamilton Vase UK, 1790s