Pair Of Minton Majolica Renaissance Style Two-handled Krater Vases Painted By E.a. Lessore Each Of - Apr 04, 2023 | Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers In Ny
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Pair of Minton Majolica Renaissance Style Two-Handled Krater Vases Painted by E.A. Lessore Each of
Pair of Minton Majolica Renaissance Style Two-Handled Krater Vases Painted by E.A. Lessore Each of
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Pair of Minton Majolica Renaissance Style Two-Handled Krater Vases
Painted by E.A. Lessore
Each of krater form, flanked by wing caryatid handles, painted in the Renaissance style with frolicking putti in mountainous landscapes, the revelers shown playing horses, squeezing grapes into a chalice, playing with a hound and riding on the back of a goat, above masks and pendant fruit and a socle foot with floral arabesques, impressed date cypher for 1858 and small cyphers. Height 10 1/2 inches.

Émile-Aubert Lessore, French (1805-76), after training at Sèvres emigrated to Britain in 1858. He is recorded working at Minton for a short period in that year, prior to moving to Wedgwood in the Spring of 1860.

Provenance:
Christie's, London, Spring 1991, lot 322, (according to a letter from Anne Haworth, dated 30th May 1991 and providing the exhibition history cited below.

Exhibited:
The Gladstone Pottery Museum Stoke-on-Trent (loan).

Reference:
Colin Andrew, Ars Ceramics, Wedgwood's French Connection: Emile Lessore 1805-1876, No. 30, 2014, p. 71 fig. 15 for a Wedgwood plate decorated by Emile Lessore with two children playing horses and war games. See The Birmingham Museum of Art, no. AF15.2013 for a Minton majolica Renaissance revival snake-handled vase attributed to Lessore.


C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
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Pair of Minton Majolica Renaissance Style Two-Handled Krater Vases Painted by E.A. Lessore Each of

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