Assembled Wedgwood Variegated Creamware 'Surface Agate' Five-Piece Garniture Circa 1775-1780, impressed 'Wedgwood' marks Each creamware body with marbleized surface-crystaline agate decoration in mottled black and brown slips, the laurel swags, banding and handles enriched in gilt, comprising: a large central shield-shaped caryatid handled vase and cover; two cassolette shield-shaped vases with reversible ball finial and candle-nozzle lids; and two ovoid bodied ewers with scalloped pouring lip, the high loop handle with satyr's mask terminal, all on circular socles and square ivory-jasperware bases, two of these stepped. Height of largest 12 inches. Provenance: Private Collection Maryland. For a Wedgwood & Bentley ewer and a similar Wedgwood cassolette vase, see the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, museum nos. 1452-1853 and C.2251&A-1910. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
Damage to the candle-nozzle on one cassolette, chip to edge and ball finial available for repair; the other nozzle with multiple repaired cracks, a small section of the rim out in two and restuck, both ewer handles in two and reattached, the central vase with one caryatid off through the shoulders and wing and repaired, the other with reattached wing, gilding worn, some gilding throughout likely refreshed especially on ewer lips, trace gilding only on some rims and finials.
Assembled Wedgwood Variegated Creamware 'Surface Agate' Five-Piece Garniture Circa 1775-1780, impressed 'Wedgwood' marks Each creamware body with marbleized surface-crystaline agate decoration in mottled black and brown slips, the laurel swags, banding and handles enriched in gilt, comprising: a large central shield-shaped caryatid handled vase and cover; two cassolette shield-shaped vases with reversible ball finial and candle-nozzle lids; and two ovoid bodied ewers with scalloped pouring lip, the high loop handle with satyr's mask terminal, all on circular socles and square ivory-jasperware bases, two of these stepped. Height of largest 12 inches. Provenance: Private Collection Maryland. For a Wedgwood & Bentley ewer and a similar Wedgwood cassolette vase, see the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, museum nos. 1452-1853 and C.2251&A-1910. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
Damage to the candle-nozzle on one cassolette, chip to edge and ball finial available for repair; the other nozzle with multiple repaired cracks, a small section of the rim out in two and restuck, both ewer handles in two and reattached, the central vase with one caryatid off through the shoulders and wing and repaired, the other with reattached wing, gilding worn, some gilding throughout likely refreshed especially on ewer lips, trace gilding only on some rims and finials.
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