Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
All the Variety and Perfection: The Wedgwood Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin & Suzanne Borow Rubin
Auction: February 15, 2023 11:00 AM EDT
Stoneware
Shape 3440
Impressed "WEDGWOOD" and "MADE IN ENGLAND"
Provenance
Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin and Suzanne Borow Rubin
Literature
Hoffman, George, Animal Figures by Wedgwood 1769-1989, William T. Hoffman, Los Angeles, 1989, pp. 60-1 (Hoffman seems to indicate in his caption for pl. 21 that this Black Basalt example is unique.)
Note
Batkin (p. 188) indicates that this group was trialed but never put into production.