A Wedgwood black basalt potpourri vase and cover, circa 1805-10A Wedgwood black basalt potpourri vase and cover, circa 1805-10Of squat campana form with two high loop handles, encaustic-painted in terracotta and white enamels with a formal palmette and stiff leaf borders, the pierced cover further picked out in subdued enamels, 23.6cm diam including handles, impressed WEDGWOOD (2)ProvenanceMr and Mrs Samuel Victor Collection, Sotheby's New York, 10 March 1978, lot 143Zorensky Collection, Bonhams, 23 October 2013, lot 52An illustration of the probable source of this vase shape is in William Hamilton's 1766 work Antiquités Etrusques, Grecques, et Romaines Tirées du Cabinet du M. William Hamilton, Vol.2, pl.39. An example with similar decoration is in the Winterthur Museum (inv. no.2000.60).