Lot Details
Lot 54
Minton Majolica Vulture and Snake Teapot and Cover
Recorded as shape no. 1851, designed by Henry Hope Crealock, date cypher for 1874
Modeled as a vulture attacking a python, the raptor with pink neck and head, brown plumage and black wing tips, the struggling green serpent with bared fangs, on rocky mound base, impressed uppercase mark, two other cyphers and a painted 12 to the base and cover. Height overall 9 3/4 inches.
Lieutenant-General Henry Hope Crealock (31 March 1831 - 31 May 1891) was a British soldier, artist, and author.
Provenance:
Bonnie Heller, New York, April 19, 1989.
Literature:
Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cats. 120 and 121, figs. 10.3 and 10.4, boxed set cover.
Exhibited:
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-499; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.118; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.
Reference:
Victoria Bergeson, Majolica, p. 44, fig. 31. Joan Jones, Minton: Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, p. 152. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 2.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
Additional Notes & Condition Report
under blacklight the entire snake and vulture's head and neck have been overpainted, however, the integrity of the pot and the bird does not appear to have been damaged; the interior blacklights as clean; to the naked eye there is restoration through the vulture and the snake's necks, and the handle has been off and reattached; it is likely the restorer overpainted the entire snake so that it would appear consistent and present well; both finial terminals on the cover have been ground and the cover fits well, possibly in the making
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