Group of English and American Majolica Wall Pockets
Circa 1875-90
Comprising a swan cobalt-blue ground example, circa 1880, unmarked, of conical form, molded in high relief with a displaying swan before bulrushes, pierced for hanging, the interior in pink, the flat reverse in ochre-yellow, height 10 inches; T.C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. brown-ground Yule Basket example, circa 1875, impressed uppercase mark, 496 and * black painted 497B, modeled as a pale-yellow basket with green and yellow ribbon entwined trim, set on a yule log, applied with red holly berry vine, the quatrefoil backplate suspended from a lozenge-form hanging bracket, edged in yellow and black, height 10 1/2 inches; English brown-ground Oak and Ivy Rustic example, circa 1890, unmarked, the demilune pocket with scalloped trim molded with oak branches and acorns entwined with ivy, reserved on a rustic bark ground, edged in ochre-yellow, pink interior, the pierced backplate in ochre-yellow, height 6 1/2 inches; George Jones pale-turquoise ground Wicker and Bamboo example, circa 1875, impressed GJ monogram mark, black painted shape no. 3273/H, modeled as a hanging flower basket with leafing bamboo frame, pink interior, height 11 inches; and a Griffen, Smith & Hill Etruscan light-brown ground Basket example, circa 1880, impressed GSH monogram mark and black painted 31, modeled as a demilune oval basket, with oak branch frame, the backplate twice pierced, width 6 1/4 inches.

C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection

English Swan Wall-Pocket: minor rim chip (now infilled but not colored) and associated hairline crack to the backplate; there is a small area of infilling that is over painted in white, located at the center of the bird's belly; restoration to the white-colored infilling on the left facing wing tip; there are approximately two glaze flake chip losses along the top cobalt-colored rim edge of the pocket ; there is a stain/soil line visible on the interior side of the upper edge of the wall pocket (may or may not clean away); examined under black light

T.C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. Yule Basket Wall Pocket: there is some evidence of some minor restoration at either end of the bottom of the diamond-shaped hanging finial, which fluoresces under black light; there is no evidence of a break to the finial when examined from behind; uniform network of tiny crazing to the glaze; examined under black light

Griffen, Smith & Hill Etruscan Basket Wall Pocket: two minor chips to lower periphery; not examined off the wall; not blacklighted

English Oak and Ivy Rustic Wall Pocket: appears to be in good condition; not examined off the wall; not black lighted

George Jones Wicker/Bamboo Wall Pocket: appears to be in overall very good condition; there is a very tiny nick to the bottom edge area of one of the bottom bamboo stalk ends (on left-facing side), not of any consequence; uniform network of tiny crazing to the glaze; there is sharpness to one of the central crossed bamboo stalk ends (a protruding pinhead-size particle inclusion, that was not filed away), in the making, not of consequence; blacklighted

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