Lot Details
Lot 100
Simon Fielding & Co. Majolica Japanese-Fan and Insect Six-Pocket Oyster Plate
Circa 1881
Of lobed hexagonal form, the fluted central well with yellow line rim, encircled by six radiating Japanese style fans, molded with insects in flight over flowering prunus and bamboo, one with a junk and pelican, on a pebbled turquoise ground, the lobed border with brown reeded edge, raised on six shell feet, impressed registry diamond possibly for 16 June 1881, parcel 8, black painted HD. Diameter 9 1/4 inches.
Literature:
Eve M. Kahn, The Magazine Antiques, Ceramic Dynamic: Majolica, 17 May 2020, May/June, fig. 13 and cover. Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. 85, fig. 5.1.
Exhibited:
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-938; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.81; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.
Reference:
Jeffrey B. Snyder, Collection Oyster Plates, (Schiffer Book for Collectors), p. 24, illustrated front and back cover. Jim and Vivian Karsnitz, Collecting Oyster Plates, p. 54.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
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