Group of English Majolica Seafood Plates and Dishes
Comprising a Minton three-pocket 'Fish and Shell' seafood plate, shape no. 1497, date cypher for 1871, the central oval well supported by two fish, the heads and tails visible, alternate with three large shells, impressed uppercase mark and two small cyphers, raised registry diamond (23-X-A-5) for 23 December 1868, parcel 5, and shape number, width overall 9 3/4 inches; a Simon Fielding turquoise and pink ground 'Shell and Coral' six-pocket oyster plate, circa 1890, the central circular well encircled by six radiating oyster shells separated by molded seaweed, the well and rim edged with brown twisted rope, the mottled-gray reverse with six small shell feet, impressed cypher, black painted 514 and C, diameter 9 inches; an English brown-ground crescent-shaped oyster dish, attributed to Joseph Holdcroft, circa 1880, the curved side molded with a spray of seaweed radiating five pink-lined recessed shell pockets alternating with smaller shells, within a yellow line rim, the underside a mottled pale yellow, applied with three muffin bun feet, width 9 3/4 inches; and an Adams & Bromley polychrome cobalt-blue ground six-pocket oyster plate, circa 1880, naturalistically molded, the yellow central well encircled by alternating pink and green oyster shells, divided by stiff leaf tips, on a seeded cobalt-blue ground, within a yellow line rim, the reverse mottled in brown and white, unmarked, diameter 9 7/8 inches.

Provenance (Minton Three-Pocket 'Fish and Shell' Seafood Plate):
Fletcher-Hayes, Shell Beach, CA, October 29, 1991.

Reference (Minton Three-Pocket 'Fish and Shell' Seafood Plate):
Jeffrey Snyder, Collection Oyster Plates, (Schiffer Book for Collectors), p. 15.

Literature (Simon Fielding Turquoise and Pink Ground Shell and Coral Six-Pocket Oyster Plate):
KL001683 - unidentified

Reference (Simon Fielding Turquoise and Pink Ground Shell and Coral Six-Pocket Oyster Plate):
Jim and Vivian Karsnitz, Collecting Oyster Plates, p. 45 (as Simon Fielding).

Literature (English Brown-Ground Crescent-Shaped Oyster Dish):
KL001381 (attributed to Holdcroft). Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 134 (unattributed).

Literature (Adams & Bromley Polychrome Cobalt-Blue Ground Six-Pocket Oyster Plate):
KL001713 (as unidentified). Eve M. Kahn, The Magazine Antiques, The Ceramic Dynamic, 17 May 2020, May/June, cover. Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. no. 08.18.

Exhibited (Adams & Bromley Polychrome Cobalt-Blue Ground Six-Pocket Oyster Plate):
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-685; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.78.

Reference (Adams & Bromley Polychrome Cobalt-Blue Ground Six-Pocket Oyster Plate):
Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica, p. 168, fig. 295, for a related American version of this model, attributed to Marley & Co., Wellsville, Ohio.


C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection

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