Large pr Flaxman Ewers black basalt 62cm

Large pair sculptural ewers in the Wedgwood manner with matt black basalt finish in fired terracotta with ehight of 62cm. Modelled after the rare pair of ewers named Sacred to Bacchus and Neptune these giant ewers are sculpted with mermen like figure with scrolling fishtails, their hands firmly grasping the neck of the ewer as though riding a wave. The grotesque head of a sea monster above a baluster shaped body with reeded and turned socle to square pedestal. These large ewers are not signed or dated but have clear reference to the black basalt urns sculpted by John Flaxman for Wedgwood