a glazed pottery jug and four plates

DESIGNED SOPHIE DE LERMA-VAN DER DOES DE WILLEBOIS, EXECUTED BY CERAMICA FONTANA LIMITE, VIETRI SUL MARE, CIRCA 1928

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a glazed pottery jug and four plates
Designed Sophie de Lerma-van der does de Willebois, executed by Ceramica Fontana Limite, Vietri sul Mare, circa 1928
The jug of globular form with flaring rim and cylindrical loop handle, the cream ground modelled in relief and painted with four donkeys, above a band of linear decoration, yellow rim and handle, the four circular plates decorated at the centre with an animal, the wells with linear and lobed decoration
Jug 21.9cm. high
All marked artist's monogram ST, a fish and Italy, three plates additionally with Made in (5)

Lot Essay

Sophie de Lerma, also known under the name of her deceased husband as Sophie van Stolk, moved to Vetri near Naples in 1925 were she took over a majolica workshop. After the death of her husband in 1926 she started to work with Luigi de Lerma whom she married in 1931

Cf. Uitzichten en Stroomingen in de Kunstnijverheid, VANK Yearbook, 1928, Rotterdam, 1928, p. 49, p. 116 & 117, no. 90-93

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