A MINTON HERON AND PIKE EWER

DATE CYPHER FOR 1867, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, MODEL NO. 1241, SIGNED H. PROTÂT

細節

A MINTON HERON AND PIKE EWER
Date cypher for 1867, impressed uppercase mark, model no. 1241, signed H. PROTÂT
Modelled as a large blue heron standing among reeds and water-lily pads grasping a fish in its beak
21in. (53.3cm.) high

來源

John Barrymore Collection
With L.B. Charles Gallery, Inc., Michigan

拍品專文

Cf. Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 132; Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan Stacke, Majolica A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 57; and the Harriman Judd sale, Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 2001, lot 27

Hugues Protât was a French modeller, appointed Modelling Instructor at Minton Memorial Institute from 1859-63 and later supplied Minton, among others, with models from his studio in London.