Garden & Architectural

Antique Wedgwood Diced Rosso Antico Bulb Pot and Cover

£750

A rare Wedgwood diced ‘Rosso Antico’ bulb pot and cover, of tapering ovoid form, dipped in black basalt slip and engine-turned to the red body with a diced or chequerboard pattern below a border of paterae, the cover with two large, collared openings and seven smaller pierced apertures.

Width 15.5 cm (6.25 inches)
English. Circa 1790

Literature:

 

A very similar bulb pot of D-shape is illustrated in Wedgwood: The New Illustrated Dictionary by Robin Reilly (1995 p.373)

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SKU: C4589