Two-Handled Vase (Pelike)
Josiah Wedgwood & Thomas Bentley
(active 1768–1780)
about 1770
Medium/TechniqueStoneware (“basalt”) with enamel and slip ("encaustic") decoration
DimensionsOverall: 18.4 x 12.7 x 10.2 x 10.2 cm (7 1/4 x 5 x 4 x 4 in.)
Credit LineRowland Burdon-Muller Fund
Accession number2011.2007
On View
On viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceBefore 1960, probably purchased in New York by William Jacobson (b. 1920 – d. 1967), Brooklyn, NY; 1967, by inheritance to his brother, Herman Jacobson (d. 1980), Brookline, MA; 1980, by inheritance to his son, Kenneth Jacobson, Hadley, MA; 2011, sold by Kenneth Jacobson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 21, 2011)
Josiah Wedgwood & Thomas Bentley
Josiah Wedgwood & Thomas Bentley
