Lot Details
Lot 12
Minton Majolica Renaissance Style Soulages
Cobalt-Blue Ground Ewer and Stand Emblematic of Earth, Water and Fire
Modeled by Hamlet Bourne after a Bernard Palissy design, recorded as shape no. 732, designed circa 1858
The shield shaped jug, with a bearded mask and the head of a satyr below spout, a naiad draped along the handle, the sides molded with either a scantily clad nymph beside a fruit filled urn and squirrel, before a woodland stag hunt or with a reclining water sprite holding an oar beside a spilling vase before bulrushes and waves, the stand centering an oval medallion of Juno holding a sword and wielding thunderbolts, within a floral lappet border, unmarked. Height of ewer 10 1/2 inches; width of stand 11 7/8 inches.
The design for this Minton jug is based on a 16th century Bernard Palissy jug in the Jules Soulages Collection, which was displayed at Marlborough House from 1856 and is now at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, no. 7178.1860.
Literature:
Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. 103, fig. 11.15.
Exhibited:
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-552; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.100; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.
Reference:
The Victoria & Albert Museum, Accession Number: 4730&A-1859. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 41. Rosalie W. Sharp, China to Light Up a House, vol. two, p. 173.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
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