Lot Details
Lot 63
English Majolica Brown-Ground 'Corn and Wheat' Garden Seat
Attributed to John Adams & Co., later Adams & Bromley, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, recorded as shape no. 130, circa 1870
Of waisted cylindrical form, molded in relief with alternating pink ribbon-tied wheat sheaves and tall corn stalks, the seat as faux wicker, the hollow interior yellow, unmarked. Height 19 inches, diameter 13 5/8 inches.
Provenance:
William Doyle Galleries, New York, Property from the Estate of James Beard, October 3, 1985.
Literature:
KL001607 and KL001608 Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. 140, fig. 10.9.
Exhibited:
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-577; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.171; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.
Reference:
Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 119 for a line drawing of John Adams & Co. production for the Exhibition of 1871, published by Llewellynn Jewitt in Ceramic Art of Great Britain, 1883.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
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