Lot Details
Lot 24
Mintons Majolica Banana Leaf and Bamboo Garden Seat
Designed by Hugues Protât, date cypher for 1882
Of waisted cylindrical form, naturalistically molded in relief with broad palm leaves, the yellow-ground top as faux bamboo, about a green and brown Ruyi pattern center, the hand hold as a pierced oval, impressed uppercase mark, various cyphers and partial shape no. 1116, stylized HP faux 'character mark' in the molded decoration of the seat. Height 19 1/2 inches.
Hugues Protât (born 1816, active 1835-1890), was a French sculptor employed in England in the early 1850's. At the Minton Memorial Institute, Stoke, he was appointed 'Modelling Instructor' at the School of Art, 1859-1863, but continued to work in a freelance capacity.
Provenance:
Skinner's, Boston, December 11, 1993, lot 180.
Literature:
Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. 57, fig. 5.65.
Exhibited:
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-506; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.53; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
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