A Pair of Wedgwood Black Basalt Lionesses Couchant
The design possibly suggested to Josiah Wedgwood by Sir William Chambers who drew similar, based on the Capitoline Egyptian models, in his ‘Treatise on the Decorative part of Civil Architecture’
English, circa 1775 - 1800
Provenance - George Withers, Ye Grange, Bathampton
The design possibly suggested to Josiah Wedgwood by Sir William Chambers who drew similar, based on the Capitoline Egyptian models, in his ‘Treatise on the Decorative part of Civil Architecture’
English, circa 1775 - 1800
Provenance - George Withers, Ye Grange, Bathampton
The design possibly suggested to Josiah Wedgwood by Sir William Chambers who drew similar, based on the Capitoline Egyptian models, in his ‘Treatise on the Decorative part of Civil Architecture’
English, circa 1775 - 1800
Provenance - George Withers, Ye Grange, Bathampton
Dimensions - 22cm long
These recumbent lionesses are based on ancient Egyptian examples, which since 1562 have been (almost constantly) at the base of the steps leading to the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome.
Charles Heathcote Tatham made a drawing in 1795 after a "Design by Giuseppe Bosch Copied from the celebrated Egyptian Lions in Basal" (see sketch image from the V&A archives).