Lot Details
Lot 29
Minton Majolica Brown-Ground Foxglove and Fern Brown-Ground Garden Pot and Stand
Shape no. 1056, date cyphers for 1866
Naturalistically molded with foxglove and morning glory among ferns and fronds, flanked by scroll handles, on a conforming stand, impressed shape no., Z and various cyphers, painted 41 to pot and backwards N 2 to stand. Height 19 7/8 inches, diameter 18 1/2 inches.
Literature:
Eve M. Kahn, The Magazine Antiques, Ceramic Dynamic: Majolica, 17 May 2020, May/June, fig. 10. Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. 7, Vol. I, front cover illustration, fig. 1.
Exhibited:
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-568; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.8; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.
Reference:
Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, p. 92 and p. 218 for drawing of works displayed by Mintons at the Great Exhibition of 1851, including the present form.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
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