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Lot 123
Sale 5626 - All the Variety and Perfection: The Wedgwood Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin & Suzanne Borow Rubin
Feb 15, 2023
6:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$500 -
700
Price Realized
$378
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A Wedgwood Richard Redgrave (1804-1888) Designed Shaving Pot UK, circa 1850
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.
Property from the Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin and Suzanne Borow Rubin