WW102-483 Listing.qxp_Layout 1 25/01/2018 10:53 Page 8
28. An Obadiah Sherratt pearlware table base bust of Reverend John Wesley, c.1820, modelled in his later years, facing forward and wearing clerical dress, raised on a blue socle on a square footed base, 31cm. £100-200 Provenance: from the collection of the late Reverend John J Perry.
29. A rare biographical script portrait of John Wesley, c.1885, printed after Glück Rosenthal, the portrait drawn using a continuous calligraphic script of his life taken from Richard Watson's 1831 biography, together with a printed transcript and six other prints relating to Wesley and Methodism. (7) £100-200 Cf. Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, Vol. XIX, 1933-34 for a history of the picture, only a handful of copies of which remain. Provenance: from the collection of the late Reverend John J Perry.
30. A small collection of commemorative ceramics relating to John Wesley, 19th/early 20th century, including a pearlware sugar bowl and cover and a milk jug, printed with a portrait of Wesley and with the Centenary Hall, a Wood & Sons, Burslem plate commemorating the 1907 Primitive Methodist Centenary, a creamware jug and a porter mug printed with varying portraits of Wesley, a similarly decorated pearlware cup and saucer, and a lustre goblet applied with a figure reading, some damages, 24cm max. (9) £100-200 Provenance: from the collection of the late Reverend John J Perry.
8
31. A group of commemorative medals relating to John Wesley and Methodism, 19th century and later, two white metal and relating to the centenary of Methodism in 1839 and bearing portraits of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, mounted in a glazed free-standing frame, an 1830 medal of Robert Raikes, and unframed 1839 medal of John Wesley, three further 1839 bronze medals (one boxed), and three small framed plaques of John and Charles Wesley. (10) £50-80 Provenance: from the collection of the late Reverend John J Perry.