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Item Ships From: Australia
Creator: Wedgwood
Black basalt figure of Bacchus. Wedgwood C1780.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Exceptionally rare early figure of Bacchus in black basalt. The mixed-case mark places this figure between 1780 and 1785.
He is portrayed in typical style, his head garlanded with grapes and with a wine cup to his lips.
Bacchus, also known as Dionysus in Greek mythology, is the enigmatic god of wine, fertility, and ritual madness. He symbolizes freedom, ecstasy, and the blurring of societal norms through his rituals and festivities. Bacchus is often depicted in myths as a deity who challenges the status quo, promoting an atmosphere where conventional rules do not apply, and his followers are liberated from their everyday constraints.
Born from Zeus and the mortal Semele, Bacchus is unique among gods, bridging the divide between the divine and the human. His followers included the wild and ecstatic maenads, female devotees who often reached states of divine frenzy, and the satyrs, mischievous half-man, half-goat beings. The worship of Bacchus was marked by theatrical processions, dances, and plays, reflecting his patronage of the theater and the dramatic arts.
Bacchus’s mythology...
Category
1780s English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Rosso Antico Candlesticks, Wedgwood, circa 1820
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare pair of bell shaped candlesticks in rosso antico, with black decoration of ‘Boys at Play’.
Category
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Flaxman Ewers in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1830.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the iconic early wedgwood pieces, the pair of ewers Sacred to Neptune & Sacred to Bacchus was designed by Flaxman in the 1780s for Josiah Wedgwood. They have remained popular ...
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Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Campana Vase, Victoriaware Wedgwood, circa 1880
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A campana vase in white & gilt Victoriaware. Very French in style, the decoration being a copy of Sevres. It works surprisingly well on the neoclassical shape.
Category
Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Victoriaware campana Vase in White with Gilt Decoration. Wedgwood C1880.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A campana vase in white & gilt Victoriaware. Victoriaware was a mixture of parian and creamware, used to create these extraordinary vases featuring Sevres-style decoration on classic...
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Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Other
Sea Lion, by John Skeaping. Wedgwood C1925.
By John Rattenbury Skeaping, Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In creamware, with moonstone glaze. The mould sculpted by John Skeaping. Signed for both Wedgwood and Skeaping.
Skeaping was commissioned by Wedgwood to produce a series of animal s...
Category
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Creamware
Jeweled Tree Vase. Wedgwood, circa 1980
By Daisy Makeig-Jones, Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Fabulous baluster-shaped vase decorated with Jewelled Tree pattern. Panels to the sides depicting "Cat and Mouse" and "Copper Trees". From the late 20th century lustre revival.
Prob...
Category
Late 20th Century English Art Deco Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, large vase in black basalt, decorated with an encaustic painted figure of a youth and an older man, taken from The Hamilton vase in the British Museum. It is unusual to find ...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Portland Vase. Barnard Edition (Bert Bentley). Wedgwood C1925
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In the early 1920s, Wedgwood decided to produce an exceptional edition of the Portland Vase, and Harry Barnard embarked on 3-4 years of experiments, which resulted in this superb and...
Category
Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Revival Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
Pair of lustre Trumpet Vases with Butterflies. Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Daisy Makeig-Jones, Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of large trumpet vases, decorated with 'grotesque' butterflies on a mother-of-pearl lustre ground.
Probably the best of Wedgwood's female de...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Edward Bourne, Wedgwood, circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Portrait Medallion of Edward Bourne, bricklayer at the Wedgwood factory. A bricklayer was kept on staff in order to maintain the kilns.
This was modelled by Hackwood as an excercise...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Bacchantes in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1860.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Perhaps the most complex work in black basalt undertaken on any scale by Wedgwood, the Bacchantes, are adapted from sculptures by Clodion. A large and impressive pair, ful of vigour ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Portrait Medallions David Garrick & Sarah Siddons, Wedgwood, 19th Century
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A matched pair of portrait medallions showing the famous actors Mr Garrick (C1830) and Mrs Siddons, (circa 1880). Framed as a pair, they work well together.
David Garrick and Sarah Siddons...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1800
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, large vase in black basalt, decorated with an encaustic painted figure of a youth, taken from The Hamilton vase in the British Museum.
The shape is taken from the Greek Hydria...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Fairyland Lustre Bowl, Geisha Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Wedgwood, Daisy Makeig-Jones
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An octagonal fairyland lustre bowl, decorated with Geisha pattern, one of the best loved of Daisy Makeig-Jones’ designs.
Probably the best of Wedgwood's female designers, Daisy wa...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Basalt Portrait Medallion, William of Orange, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A self-framing portrait medallion of William of Orange. The mixed-vase mark dates this example firmly in the 1780s. Wedgwood produced a number of co...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Australian Bicentenary Bowl, Wedgwood, circa 1988. Number 10 of 50 Made
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In Royal Blue dip; a colour normally reserved for Coronation commemoratives. One of only fifty made; made to mark the bicentenary of the found...
Category
1980s English Neoclassical Vintage Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Ruby Lustre Bowl with Butterflies. Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Wedgwood, Daisy Makeig-Jones
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An "ordinary" lustre bowl, with ruby lustre decoration to the outside, and a marvellous medallion in the centre.
Probably the best of Wedgwood's female ...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Mantle Clock in Black Jasper Dip, by Bert Bentley, Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine mantle clock in black jasper dip, decorated by Bert Bentley with Sacrifice to the front. To one side, Polymnia; to the other, an unidentified female ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Revival Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of framed Roundels in Black Jasperware, Wedgwood, circa 1920
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An exceptionally fine pair of roundels in black jasperware, decorated with two images of Cupid: The first sharpening his arrows; the second, of him st...
Category
Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Flame Fairyland Lustre Vase: Tree Serpent
By Wedgwood, Daisy Makeig-Jones
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A tall, well-proportioned vase in Flame Fairyland Lustre, decorated with Tree Serpent pattern and Imps on a Bridge (pattern Z5360).
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Master Potter to the Univers...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
First Edition Portland Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1793
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
NOTE: We do not keep this in the showroom. Please let us know if you're visiting and would like to see it.
Rarely does a first edition Portland vase...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
Large Wedgwood Jasperware Jardiniere
By Wedgwood
Located in East Geelong, VIC
The body of this large Wedgwood jardiniere has been dipped in a light blue Jasperware and decorated with applied sprigs done in a white clay. The sprigs are made when clay is pressed...
Category
1890s English Late Victorian Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Earthenware
Portrait Medallion of Pitt the Elder, Wedgwood C1920
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine tricolour portrait medallion of the First Earl of Chatham (1708-1778), a Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years’ War.
Orna...
Category
Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Revival Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Scent, or Perfume, Bottle, in Pale Blue Jasperware, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A scent bottle in pale blue jasperware, with original silver CAP and dipper.
Decorated with Cupid playing the lyre, and Cupid singing. The God of Love suggests this was intended a...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Portland Vase, Northwood, Wedgwood, circa 1880
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the finest copies of The Portland Vase that Wedgwood produced, in many ways rivalling the First Edition itself.
Decorated by Thomas Lovatt, then cut, polished and shaded by John Northwood in his glass engraving studio. Although 30 copies were intended, the work was so exacting and arduous that in the end only thirteen were finished.
The mirrored stand, which is included, is later and I think dates from the late 20th century. Of all the stands designed for the Portland Vase, this is the best I've seen.
The original Portland vase, dating from around 200AD and made of cameo glass, is considered one of the most important examples of classical design and is noted for its intricate relief sculptures, which depict classical figures and scenes from Greek mythology - exactly what, though, we're not sure.
The original Wedgwood Portland Vase...
Category
1880s English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
Portrait Medallion of The Comtesse du Barry, Wedgwood C1920
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Tricolour portrait medallion of the last Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress) of Louis XV.
Produced by Bert Bentley from the 18th century model, with his usual excellent detail...
Category
Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Revival Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Oliver Cromwell, Wedgwood, circa 1775
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A self-framing portrait medallion of Oliver Cromwell, MP: rebel, regicide, suppressor of Ireland, persecutor of Catholics, and Dictator. He was posthum...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Pale Blue Jasperware Bowl, Wedgwood, circa 1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In solid slate blue jasper, with inlaid foot; decorated with numerous reliefs typical of the period. Engine turned decoration and lapidary polished interior.
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Ma...
Category
1790s English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Encaustic Painted Basalt Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Polished basalt, decorated with Victoria, Goddess of Victory, in her chariot; possibly after a Roman model such as the wall paintings at Herculaneum. T...
Category
1780s English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Torch Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1820
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very tall and very striking tricolor torch vase, complete with cover.
In neoclassical iconography, the torches symbolize marriage; hence the love-bird finial.
Category
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Jasper Vase in Buff with Black Ornament, Wedgwood, circa 1870
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare shape, in the scarce buff jasper dip with black ornament. A striking and unusual combination of colours in jasperware.
Category
Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Revival Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Huge Dragon Lustre Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Daisy Makeig-Jones, Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Standing a full 20" high, this is one of the largest lustre vases Wedgwood ever produced.
In excellent condition, this would make an exciting accent piece for the home, or a drop-de...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Campana Vase, Gilt and Bronzed, Wedgwood, 1880
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unusually large example of a scarce form of decoration. The vase is bronzed and gilded, in imitation of Japanese bronzes of the period.
Category
1870s English Neoclassical Revival Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Shield-Shaped Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1773
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A shield-shaped vase, decorated to resemble porphyry, and highlighted with gilding.
Marked for Wedgwood & Bentley.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Crimson Jasper Portland Vases
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of Portland Vases in crimson jasper dip. Both of them superb, without the usual losses or bleeding associated with this ill-fated colour.
Crims...
Category
1920s English Neoclassical Revival Vintage Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Egyptian Sphinxes in Rosso with Black, Wedgwood, circa 1820
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pair of winged, seated sphinxes in rosso with black decoration.
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Master Potter to the Universe, Roche Foundation, 2023.
The Egyptian winged sphinx is a variat...
Category
Early 19th Century English Egyptian Revival Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Jasperware Portrait Medallion, Marc Antony, Wedgwood, circa 1778
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An important early portrait medallion of Marc Antony in plain white jasper, probably predating the invention of the ‘dip’ process, which is why it i...
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Figure Faun with Flute, Wedgwood, circa 1870
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
After the antique “Piping Faun” now in the Louvre Museum; the result of it being bought by Napoleon from the Borghese collection.
The "Piping Faun" is...
Category
1870s English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Bincentenary Wine Cooler, Wedgwood, circa 1950
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Two handled vase in creamware, with moonstone glaze and platinum lustre decoration. Designed by Louise Powell for the bicentenary of Wedgwood’s birth.
...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Earthenware
Art Nouveau Gourd Vase, Wedgwood, circa 1905
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A rare example of Wedgwood’s excursion into Art Nouveau, in the form of a gourd shaped vase decorated with butterflies, designed by Courtney Lindsay in 1901.
Exhibited: Wedgwood, Ma...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Nouveau Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Earthenware
Bust of Mercury in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1820.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Wedgwood produced a very successful line of Library Busts, of which Minerva and Mercury were the longest in production, running right up into the 20th century - they make a good pair...
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Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Bust of Minverva in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1880.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Wedgwood produced a very successful line of Library Busts, of which Minerva and Mercury were the longest in production, running right up into the 20th century - they make a good pair...
Category
Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Tiberius Augustus, Wedgwood, circa 1775
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine large self-framing portrait medallion of the Emperor Tiberius Augustus, second emperor of Rome.
Unmarked, as were many of these medallions.
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Encaustic Painted Basalt Oenochoe, Wedgwood, circa 1800
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Currently on loan to The David Roche Foundation for their exhibition "Josiah Wedgwood - Master Potter to the Universe".
A fabulous oenochoe (Greek wine jug) in black basalt, with en...
Category
1790s English Neoclassical Antique Australia - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
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