Tag: wedgwood

Sphinx candlesticks. Some looking ancient, some not. One of the world’s most enduring design ideas. She never really goes out of style.

Sphinx candleholder. ca. 2026. Resin. Image © 2026 ACACUSS. Fair use license. https://acacuss.com/products/resin-figurines-candleholder-retro-ancient-egyptian-goddess-sphinx-anubis-shape-candlestick-crafts-home-decorative-ornaments?srsltid=AfmBOorp9GQDti_-wQ6xaE4h2cv4H4oLLnMoluSVVm8swRdPWxzN5Pr3
Majolica winged sphinx candlestick decorated with golden tresses, lions, mythological birds, dragons, an antlered animal and hieroglyphics. Late 19th c. Austrian/Bohemian. Majolica, ceramic. Gerbing & Stephan, maker. Maker’s marks: the bottom marked with the incised marks G. & St. Model #2079 II. Image © 2026 Chairish, Inc. and Susan Silver Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.chairish.com/product/2448079/antique-french-majolica-winged-sphinx-candlestick
Pair of patinated bronze and gilt sphinx lustre candlesticks. The sphinxes on rectangular bases, supporting foliate urns with ten arched branches suspending tapered lustres, below a drum sconce with detachable drip pan. 19th c. No further information available. Image © 2026 Martel Maides Auctions Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Fair use license. https://www.martelmaidesauctions.com/auction-lot/a-pair-of-19th-century-patinated-bronze-and-gilt_6E540A78AC
Black Basalt Wedgwood Sphinx-form candlestick. The sphinx with a scalloped-edge candle nozzle mounted atop the back of the seated figure set on a rectangular base. Loving the way her tail wraps around. Early 19th c. English. Ceramic. Wedgwood, maker. Impressed mark. Inage © 2026 Hieronymus Objects. Fair use license. https://www.hieronymusobjects.com/black-basalt-sphinx-candlestick-wedgwood
Pair of Wedgwood majolica sphinx candlesticks, polychrome decorated and modeled with a candle nozzle atop the head. ca. 1869. English. Wedgwood, maker. Maker’s marks: impressed mark. Image © Bonhams 2001-2026. Fair use license. https://www.bonhams.com/auction/32313/lot/302/pair-of-wedgwood-majolica-sphinx-candlesticks-england-c-1869/

Egyptian Revival with a Wedgwood twist. Very popular. These pieces all being recent but they have been making it off and on for a long time.

Black basalt canopic jar and cover with gilded bands of hieroglyphs and zodiac motifs. 1978. English. Ceramic. Wedgwood, maker. Numbered 26 in a limited edition of 50. Impressed mark. Image © 1999 – 2021 SKINNER, INC, Fair use license. via https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2698B/lots/393
Black and terracotta jasper Egyptian inkstand, the boat-form tray with a griffin or crocodile head at either end, fitted with a covered sander and pounce pot and a canopic jar inkwell, each with applied hieroglyphs in relief. 2000. English. Ceramic. Wedgwood, maker. Impressed marks. Image  © 2021 Bidsquare Inc. Fair use license. via https://www.bidsquare.com/online-auctions/skinner/modern-wedgwood-black-and-terra-cotta-jasper-egyptian-inkstand-1343159
Rosso Antico (red stoneware) sugar bowl and lid with black basalt decorations in Egyptian motifs with a crocodile finial on the lid. ca. 1805. Made in Staffordshire, England at Wedgwood’s Etruria Works. Ceramic. Image  © Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, New South Wales. Fair use license. via https://collection.maas.museum/object/120135

Wedgwood “Fairyland” lustre melba cups with pretty decorations, all different. British. 1920s. Any of them will make your dessert taste ten times better.

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Pair of Fairyland lustre melba cups, each decorated with the “Leapfrogging Elves” pattern reaching to a flaming sky with a green washed interior with the “Elves on a Branch” pattern. ca. 1925. British. Wedgwood. Printed marks. Image ©Skinner Auctions. Fair use license. via https://skinnerlive.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/577/lot/238764/?url=%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F577%3Fpage%3D5%26items%3D100

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Fairyland lustre melba cup decorated with the “Leapfrogging Elves” pattern in blue and green. ca. 1925. British. Daisy Makeig-Jones, designer for Wedgwood. Makers marks: mark for Portland Vase, pattern number Z4968. Image © Bonhams 2001-2020. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25085/lot/292/?category=list

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Fairyland lustre melba cup in the “Dragon” pattern. 1922. British. Daisy Makeig-Jones, designer for Wedgwood. Marked on the underside. Image © 2020 Etsy, Inc. Fair use license. via https://www.etsy.com/sg-en/listing/620688738/wedgwood-fairyland-lustre-dragon-melba

Pieces to spruce up anyone’s morning room. Maybe you should just do up the entire house. Émile-Aubert Lessore (Lessorre) for Wedgwood. A French ceramics artist and painter, Lessore’s work is just grand.

Queens' ware vase. ca. 1862.
Queens’ ware vase. ca. 1862. Decorated in enamel decorated with scrolled snake and vine framed cartouches. One side with a motif of children in a treed landscape with a village gathering on the other. Signed by the artist. Impressed mark. Image © 1999 – 2019 SKINNER, INC. Fair use license. via https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2940B/lots/365

Vase. 1862-63. Lead-glazed creamware and jasperware.
Vase. 1862-63. Lead-glazed creamware and jasperware. Lessore in collaboration with Henry Brownsword for Wedgwood. Photo credit: Sean Pathasema/Birmingham Museum of Art. Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Cc0 License 3.0. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lessore_Vase.jpg

Queen's ware Trentham vase. ca. 1872.
Queen’s ware Trentham vase, the vase being supported on the backs of two children and a raised base adorned with agricultural tools. Polychrome enamel. ca. 1872. Émile Lessore, decorator for Wedgwood. Modeled by Rowland Morris. Signed by the artist. Impressed mark. Image © 1999 – 2019 SKINNER, INC. and lotsearch.de. Fair use license. via https://www.lotsearch.de/lot/wedgwood-emile-lessore-decorated-queens-ware-trentham-vasewedgwood-emile-26735587?page=24&orderBy=lot-title&order=ASC

Lighting your home the Wedgwood way. Various time periods but all antique.

Pair of ormolu mounted candelabra with drum bases. ca. 1810.
Pair of ormolu mounted candelabra with drum bases. ca. 1810. Square ormolu bases mounted with blue and white Wedgwood drums decorated with classic Greek bases scenes, surmounted by painted and bronzed figures of Atlas supporting the candle arms and pineapple finial. Candle nozzles and drip pans of a type found on work by Mathew Bolton. Impressed “Wedgwood” on the base. Image © 2019 Richard Gardner Antiques. Fair use license. via https://www.richardgardnerantiques.co.uk/shop/sold/fine-pair-of-ormolu-mounted-wedgwood-drum-base-candelabra/

Pair of crystal two-arm candelabra with multiple tiers of hanging prisms and finials.
Pair of crystal two-arm candelabra with multiple tiers of hanging prisms and finials, with Wedgwood drum bases decorated with Classical figures and brass. No exact date. English. Image © Cowan’s Auctions. Fair use license. via https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/crystal-candelabra-with-wedgwood-bases-181991

Pair of Wedgwood majolica candelabra. ca. 1875.
Pair of Wedgwood majolica candelabra. ca. 1875. English. Polychrome decorated and modeled with two scrolled foliate arms atop a tapering column with dragon support on a hexagonal base. Impressed mark. Image © 1986-2019 Invaluable, LLC and Skinner, Inc, Boston. Fair use license. via https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/pair-of-wedgwood-majolica-candelabra-england-c.-EB855F302A

Children in mid-gambol and frozen in time but having fun. Wedgwood designed by Lady Diana Beauclerk who lived from 1724 to 1808 but designed these when she was in her prime.

Plaque with bacchanalian boys. ca. 1790.
Plaque with bacchanalian boys. ca. 1790. Stoneware (blue jasper). After a design by Lady Diana Beauclerk. Wedgwood, manufacturer. Image © National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Fair use license. via https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/21684/

Wine cooler with Bacchanalian Boys designs. ca. 1783.
Wine cooler with Bacchanalian Boys designs. ca. 1783. Jasperware. After a design by Lady Diana Beauclerk. Wedgwood, manufacturer. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Fair use license. via https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2019/05/07/artists-workers-and-tastemakers-wedgwood-and-women-a-guest-post-by-sophie-guiny/

Jug and cover. 1800-1810.
Jug and cover. 1800-1810. After a design by Lady Beauclerk. Wedgwood, manufacturer. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Fair use license. via http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O148707/jug-and-cover-beauclerk-diana-lady/

Dip biscuit jar. Manufactured in 1875.
Dip biscuit jar. Barrel shape with applied white relief of boys. Manufactured in 1875 after a design by Lady Beauclerk. Lilac jasperware. Image © 1999 – 2019 SKINNER, INC. Fair use license. via https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2264/lots/265

Earthenware vegetable teapots of an amusing kind. 18th and 19th century.

Cauliflower teapot. 1880-89.
Cauliflower teapot. 1880-89. Earthenware. American. Griffen, Smith and Hill, makers. Open collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/14359?searchField=All&sortBy=relevance&ao=on&ft=teapot&offset=0&rpp=80&am

Corn teapot. ca. 1750-70.
Corn teapot. ca. 1750-70. British. Lead glazed earthenware. Whieldon in style. Probably Staffordshire. Open collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. via https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/192910?searchField=All&sortBy=relevance&ft=earthenware+teapot&offset=40&rpp=20&pos=57

Cauliflower teapot. 1765.
Cauliflower teapot. 1765. British. Cream colored earthenware with a green glaze.Josiah Wedgwood,maker. Exhibit in the Wedgwood Museum – Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, England. via commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teapot,_Josiah_Wedgwood,_1765,_cream-colored_earthenware,_green_glaze_-_Wedgwood_Museum_-_Barlaston,_Stoke-on-Trent,_England_-_DSC09534.jpg.

All teapot images in the public domain.