Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 15 Sep 2015
A Wedgwood & Bentley Jasperware oval portrait plaque c.1773
A Wedgwood & Bentley Jasperware oval portrait plaque c.1773, of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78), facing to the right and wearing a fur-edged hat and coat, impressed mark, impressed S&I, mounted in a later metal frame, broken in half and restuck, the plaque 5.2cm.
Cf. The British Museum, Accession No. OA.5054, for an identical example bequeathed by Dr Frederick Parkes Weber in 1906.