381, Lot: 582. Estimate $100. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. temp.George III. 1760-1820. Black Basalt Porcelain Medal (27mm, 3.39 g, 12h). Roman Series: The Battle of Actium, 31 BC. By Josaiah Wedgewood after the original of J. Dassier and sons. Manufactured at the Etruria Works, Stoke-on-Trent. Conjoined busts of Cleopatra and Antony left; ANTOINE ET CLEOPATRE. above / Naval battles; BATTAILE D´ACTIUM •/ A • R • 723 • in two lines in exergue. Eisler 55a (for original Æ medal); W. Chaffers, Marks and monograms on pottery and porcelain of the Renaissance and modern periods (London: 1876), p. 258 (for the Dassier series in porcelain). Good VF.

From the RBW Collection.