$4,725
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
All the Variety and Perfection: The Wedgwood Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin & Suzanne Borow Rubin
Auction: July 12, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
Stoneware, metal hardware
Representing Minerva and Mercury, mounted on round socles
Both impressed "WEDGWOOD", both labeled with their names on the fronts, below the busts
Provenance
Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin and Suzanne Borow Rubin
Literature
Gallagher, Brian D., Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2007, pp. 184-5 (for a similar example of the Mercury bust)