A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES FIGURE GROUP OF VENUS AND CUPID

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A WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALTES FIGURE GROUP OF VENUS AND CUPID
CIRCA 1800, IMPRESSED TWICE WITH UPPERCASE MARK AND C, AFTER A MODEL BY GIOVANNI MELI

Depicting a winged Cupid leaning on his bow and reaching up to his mother at the left, Venus sitting on a draped rock, his quiver and a floral wreath at her feet, inscribed G. Meli Fl, Jacobs Collection no. 45--13¾in. (34.9cm.) high

拍品专文

Cf. Maureen Batkin, Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959, London, 1982, plate 13 for an example of the model in parian; also Geoffrey Wills Wedgwood, London 1980, p. 76 for a black basaltes example in the Collection of the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston

Italian by birth, Giovanni Meli (1807-1893) produced models for Copeland from 1840-1850 after which he moved to Wedgwood.