A garniture of three Joseph Holdcroft dark-blue-ground jardinières

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A garniture of three Joseph Holdcroft dark-blue-ground jardinières
with female mask handles and leaf-moulded bosses applied to vertical moulded straps suspending swags of leaves and flowers bound with ribbon between moulded geometric pattern bands, the lower sections gadrooned above scroll feet moulded with leaves, comprising: an oval jardinière -- 45cm. wide and two circular jardinières -- 27.5cm. wide, circa 1880 (some minor damages)
See colour plate 7 (3)

Lot Essay

Cf. Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (1990), p.125, Fig.219.
Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica A Complete and Ilustrated Survey (1989), p.106.
See also the example sold in these Rooms lot 97, Thursday, 14th March 1996.

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