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

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A Pair of Wedgwood Black Basalt Library Busts UK, early 19th century

A Pair of Wedgwood Black Basalt Library Busts UK, early 19th century

Stoneware, metal hardware
Representing Minerva and Mercury, mounted on round socles
Both impressed "WEDGWOOD", both labeled with their names on the fronts, below the busts

H: 18, W: 10 1/2, D: 8 3/4 in. (Minerva); H: 18 1/4, W: 11, D: 10 1/2 in. (Mercury)

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

Literature

Gallagher, Brian D., Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2007, pp. 184-5 (for a similar example of the Mercury bust)

Provenance

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

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A Pair of Wedgwood Black Basalt Library Busts UK, early 19th century

Stoneware, metal hardware
Representing Minerva and Mercury, mounted on round socles
Both impressed "WEDGWOOD", both labeled with their names on the fronts, below the busts

H: 18, W: 10 1/2, D: 8 3/4 in. (Minerva); H: 18 1/4, W: 11, D: 10 1/2 in. (Mercury)

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

Literature

Gallagher, Brian D., Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2007, pp. 184-5 (for a similar example of the Mercury bust)

Provenance

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 Pair of Wedgwood Black Basalt Library Busts UK, early 19th century

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A Pair of Wedgwood Black Basalt Library Busts UK, early 19th century