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Lot 2
Minton Majolica Renaissance Style Brown and Green Ground 'Crystal Palace Art Union' Ewer and Stand
Date cyphers for 1860
In the manner of Benvenuto Cellini, the model at Minton designed in 1859
The tall baluster ewer with winged caryatid handle, the globular body molded with female portrait medallions, of Diane de Poitiers, Maria de Medici and Queen Elizabeth I, set on intersection ribbons, the central band relief-molded in the Della Robbia style with fruit, reserved on a brown ground, the conforming stand with a central relief medallion of Juno and her peacock within the embossed inscription, CRYSTAL.PALACE.ART.UNION, the border with six male historic literary portrait medallions, the underside in mottled turquoise and brown, impressed script marks. Height of ewer 14 3/4 inches; diameter of stand 10 3/4 inches.
Benvenuto Cellini, (1500-1571), was a Florentine sculptor, goldsmith, and writer. The Crystal Palace Art Union was founded in 1858 as part of an art and design reform movement.
Literature:
KL001599 and KL000959 for an image of the stand underside. Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. 30, fig. 6.21.
Exhibited:
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-512; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.27; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.
Reference:
Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica, p. 80, fig. 137.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
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