Rare 18th C. Wedgwood Blue Jasperware Neoclassical Urn Girandole Vase

Presented is a fantastic old Wedgwood girandole dating to the 18th century. The piece is made very much in the Neoclassical style of the time to which it dates, in the form of an urn on three column legs with a conforming pedestal base. The color is a classic Wedgwood blue, with white relief decoration around the rim, foot, legs, and midpoint. The white decoration is very nicely done, with lion masks holding rings, acanthus leaves and other classically Greco-Roman inspired designs. The stoneware urn has bronze mounts with a faceted crystal/glass collar, which would have originally held glass/crystal candelabra branches, with pendulous crystals to reflect even more light. Suitable glass arms could likely be found to restore this piece fully, but it is a handsome display piece in its current state, too. Or, as we show in the eighth photograph, the bronze and crystal mounts can be entirely disassembled from the urn, and so it can be used as a vase. The underside is signed Wedgwood. This p