A Black Basalt 'Encaustic-Decorated' Two-Handled Vase
Year
c. 1770 - 1775
Medium
Painted with the ancient mother goddess Rhea or Cybele riding a lion and holding a tambour (?), flanked by the sun and the moon
Dimensions
24.6 x 22.5 cm
9 3/4 x 8 7/8 in
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Provenance
Oxborrow Collection;
Dreweatts, Donnington Priory, Berkshire, 1994;
With E & H Manners;
Lindsay Grigsby Collection, acquired from the above in 1994;
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 877.
Literature
D. Edwards, Black Basalt, Suffolk 1994, p. 14, colour pl. 7, captioned ‘unmarked Wedgwood and Bentley’.
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