CIRCA 1875, PROBABLY JOSEPH HOLDCROFT, IMPRESSED 440 AND VARIOUS INDISCTINCT LETTERS, AFTER A MODEL BY PAUL COLOMERA AND JOHN HENK

For similarly modelled larger stick-stands, see Victoria Bergesen, Majolica, British, Continental and American wares, 1851-1915, London, 1989, colour plate VII; Nicholas Dawes, Majolica, New York, 1990, p. 79, fig. 134; Marilyn G. Karmason and Joan Stacke, Majolica A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 55 and p.208; for a flower stand by Joseph Holdcroft see p. 103.

John Henk, son of Christian Henk, apprenticed at the firm in 1859 and rose to Chief Staff Modeller specializing in majolica animals.