Lot Essay
Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason and Joan B. Stacke, Majolica A Complete History and Illustrated Survey (1989), p. 111, for a similarly-moulded cheese bell attributed to Thomas Forester & Sons.
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A Thomas Forester & Sons cobalt-blue-ground jardinière
of flared cylindrical form, moulded with herons and dragonflies amongst bulrushes and lilies within shaped rectangular panels divided by bamboo canes, beneath caned rim, with pale-blue interior, on four branch-moulded feet, circa 1885 (one foot restored) -- 34cm. high
See illustration
of flared cylindrical form, moulded with herons and dragonflies amongst bulrushes and lilies within shaped rectangular panels divided by bamboo canes, beneath caned rim, with pale-blue interior, on four branch-moulded feet, circa 1885 (one foot restored) -- 34cm. high
See illustration
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