Lot Essay
Gustave de Bruyn was a potter from Flanders arriving first in Beauvaise around 1870 and then in Fives-Lille. He is recorded as a producer of majolica aux portes de Lille, 22, rue de l'Esperance, c. 1900.
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CIRCA 1880, IMPRESSED ANCHOR MARK FOR DE BRUYNE AT FIVES-LILLE, INCISED MODEL NUMBER 3037
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A FRENCH PALISSY STYLE TROMPE L'OEIL WALL-POCKET
Circa 1880, IMPRESSED ANCHOR MARK FOR DE BRUYNE AT FIVES-LILLE, INCISED MODEL NUMBER 3037
As a catch, the pocket formed as four fish resting in a net issuing an eel, bulrushes, lilypads and a yellow water hyacinth, the reverse pierced for hanging
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high
Circa 1880, IMPRESSED ANCHOR MARK FOR DE BRUYNE AT FIVES-LILLE, INCISED MODEL NUMBER 3037
As a catch, the pocket formed as four fish resting in a net issuing an eel, bulrushes, lilypads and a yellow water hyacinth, the reverse pierced for hanging
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high