A large Wedgwood black basalt 'Brainstone' vase

A large Wedgwood black basalt 'Brainstone' vase, the oval bowl with swan-neck handles mounted upon winged sphinxes on a rectangular plinth moulded with a key fret, 'Wedgwood' impressed. Restoration to the swan necks, the cover lacking. 19th century, 32cm. Long. Cf. R Reilly, Vol. II p.456 for a similar vase. This vase shape was in production by 1777 and produced intermittently until 1938.