Wedgwood Black Basalt Baptismal Font

Description:

Wedgwood Black Basalt Baptismal Font, England, late 18th century, banded rim with criss-cross ribbons, drapery swags and rings in high relief, acanthus leaf foot, unmarked, dia. 17 5/8 in.

Provenance: Zeitlin collection.

Note: Framed paper accompanying the bowl reads: "Dec.2nd 1919 Mr. Harry Barnard of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Museum at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, wrote, after seeing Miss Ellen Rickman's china: That her black Basalte Ware Bowl or Vase was an approximate copy, made by Messrs Wedgwood, of the old font at Essenden Church, Herts."

Literature: Similar illustrated in WEDGWOOD, by R. Reilly, volume I, plate 633.
Estimate $1,200-1,800

Underside and bowl center with large mended hairline.


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