Enamel-decorated earthenware
Attributed to Ralph or Enoch Wood
Both impressed "WEDGWOOD." on reverse of base

Provenance

Jeffrey Milkins Collection, cat. 686
Victor and Muriel Polikoff Collection, 2013
The Potomack Company, The Jeffrey Milkins Wedgwood Collection, Alexandria, September 30, 2021, Lot 2243
Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin and Suzanne Borow Rubin

Literature

Reilly, Robin, Wedgwood: A New Illustrated Dictionary, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 1995, p. 493

Note

Reilly, in the Wedgwood Dictionary, p. 493 writes, "There is no evidence that Josiah Wedgwood ever made enamelled earthenware figures, but in 1783, during the Enoch Wood-Ralph Wood partnership, Wedgwood bought a large quantity of such figures from them. There is no indication that these figures were marked, but similar figures exist, all apparently from molds used by Ralph and Enoch Wood [...], which bear the WEDGWOOD mark impressed and these are believed to have been bought from Enoch Wood about 1790."