$55,350
Large Wedgwood Encaustic Decorated Black Basalt Volute Krater Urn, England, late 18th/early 19th century, child masks to scrolled handles with swan's heads flanking terminals, iron red, white and black decorated depiction with offerings to a hero's shrine centering foliate borders and with elaborate palmettes below each handle, impressed mark, ht. 24 in. Literature: See The Complete Collection of Antiquities from the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton , by Pierre-Francois Hugues D'Hancarville, pp. 76-79; Wedgwood , by R. Reilly, volume I, plates 601 and 602. Provenance: Lenhart collection; Christie's East, January 26, 1987, Lot 211.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-10-07