Lot Details
Lot 1
Mintons Parian Figure of Colin Minton Campbell
After the sculpture by Thomas Brock, designed 1887, modeled by T. Longmore, recorded as Parian figure no. 501, date cypher for 1889
Depicted standing beside a tricorn pedestal, his right hand resting on a toppled compote, identified on the square slab base COLIN MINTON CAMPBELL, incised maker's mark. Height 19 1/4 inches.
Thomas Longmore (1847-1900) modeler. Sir Thomas Brock (1847-1922), sculptor.
Provenance:
Skinner's, Boston, May 30, 1998, lot 225.
Literature:
Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. 11, fig. 11.36.
Exhibited:
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-437; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.12.
Reference:
Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Parian Phenomenon, p. 87, fig. 135. Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica, p. 82, fig. 138. Joan Jones, Minton: Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, p. 128. Victoria and Albert Museum / Thomas Goode & Co., Minton 1798-1910, 1976, pl. 25, cat. E11, p. 41. Colin Minton Campbell (1827-1885) was a grandson of Thomas Minton (1765-1836), who founded the Minton porcelain company in Stoke-on-Trent in 1789. Campbell held several public offices including Mayor of Stoke and Member of Parliament for North Staffordshire as well as being a partner in the Minton china business in its various incarnations. The original bronze statue by Thomas Brock, of which this is a copy, is over 2 meters high and was originally unveiled by the Duchess of Sutherland in 1887. It has had various locations in Stoke-on-Trent and is now standing outside the Sainsbury's supermarket built on the Minton factory site.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
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