A pair of English stoneware pinecone finials

BY MARK BLANCHARD AND CO., LONDON, CIRCA 1860

細節

A pair of English stoneware pinecone finials
By Mark Blanchard and Co., London, Circa 1860
Each surmounted by a pinecone above acanthus leaves, on a fluted spreading circular foot with rope base, on an octagonal socle, one stamped 'TERRA COTTA M. BLANCHARD & CO ... LONDON' in a rectangle
21 in. (53 cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

One of the symbols of Bacchus, god of wine and revelry, is his thyrsus, or staff tipped with a pine cone; the pine cone or pineapple has, by association, come to represent hospitality.

For more information about M. Blanchard, see introductory note preceding lot 252.