Captain Cook Commemorative Urn by Royal Doulton
Royal Doulton Captain Cook Commemerotive urn of large proportions and in basalt black. Featuring two handles and depicting him coming to shore to pillage. The reverso featuring a cameo side profile. Gilt lettering to top marked (1770 Australia 1970) and marked to base with Royal Doulton stamp and marked edition number 70. Comes in box, height 8.27 in.
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- Basalt - Basalt is a hard, dense volcanic rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava, and makes up most of the earth's oceanic crust.
However it is also the name given by Josiah Wedgwood in 1768 to a fine black unglazed porcelain which he called Wedgwood Black Basalt.
Using this fine-grained stoneware he was able to produce copies of the newly excavated Etruscan pottery from Italy, with a lustrous and smooth, surface, and this new innovation proved to be a huge commercial success.
This item has been included into following indexes:
- Cook, Captain James - memorabilia 179
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Royal Doulton (England), item types
- Captain Cook memorabilia 27
- urns 39
