A WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY BLACK BASALT FIGURE OF THE INFANT HERCULES WITH THE SERPENT

Lot 10
01.02.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 150 000
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Lot 10 | A WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY BLACK BASALT FIGURE OF THE INFANT HERCULES WITH THE SERPENT
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
A WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY BLACK BASALT FIGURE OF THE INFANT HERCULES WITH THE SERPENT

CIRCA 1770-1775

The demigod modeled as a seated infant with a long serpent wrapping around his outstretched right arm, his right hand clasping its lower body and his left hand pinning its upper body to the ground at his side, on a stepped oval base

22 in. (55.9 cm.) high





Provenance

Collection of Horace Townsend; American Art Association, New York, 17 February 1914, lot 413.

Collection of Timothy F. Crowley; American Art Association, New York, 6-7 December 1915, lot 223.

With the Salmagundi Club, New York.



Literature

D. Buten, 18th-Century Wedgwood: A Guide for Collectors & Connoisseurs, New York, 1980, p. 119, cat. no. 98.

B.D. Gallagher, exhibition catalogue, Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries, Charlotte, The Mint Museum, 2020, pp. 88-89, cat. no. 18.



Exhibited

Charlotte, The Mint Museum, Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries, February 2020 - January 2021.
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