Tomasso Brothers
THESE 13in (34cm) terracotta roundels of satyrs and bacchantes were produced c.1770 by the British sculptor John Bacon the Elder (1740-99) as models from which Josiah Wedgwood produced examples in black basalt and white stonewhere at his eponymous Staffordshire factory.
The roundels are based on frescoes discovered at Pompeii in the so-called Villa of Cicero. Wedgwood …