Blue-glazed Pearlware Basket and Tureen, Josiah Wedgwood (1759-2005), Staffordshire, England, ea...

Blue-glazed Pearlware Basket and Tureen, Josiah Wedgwood (1759-2005), Staffordshire, England, early 19th century. The oval basket with twist handle and molded shell border edged with cobalt glaze, the shaped walls impressed with weave pattern over rope foot ring, impressed 'WEDGWOOD / W' on bottom; together with a slip-molded covered tureen and custom undertray, all transfer-printed with composite scene depicting a Sacred Lotus of Buddha, Lotus of Egypt, and Starry Water Lily, the notched cover with molded rosette finial, impressed mark 'WEDGWOOD' and underglaze 'R' inside ogee pedestal base, and impressed 'WEDGWOOD' with two 'X' marks on bottom of tray, (basket) wd. 5 1/2, dp. 4 3/8, ht. 5 1/4 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Dorothy-Lee Jones Ward (1948-2022), Wellesley, Massachusetts, and Sebago, Maine. Literature 'Water Lily #02', Transferware Collectors Club Database of Patterns & Sources, no. 1652. Also see entry in A.W. Coysh and R.K. Henrywood, Dictionary of Blue & White Printed Pottery, 1780-1880 vol. 1 (Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1982), p. 394-5. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing