Griffen, Smith & Hill Etruscan Majolica Swan-Form Paperweight
Recorded as model no. K3, circa 1880
Naturalistically modeled as a white swan resting among reeds and lily pads, the brown-ground oval base with a band of overlapping green leaves, impressed GSH monogram mark, height 2 1/2 inches, length 4 inches; Together with a Matched Griffen, Smith & Hill Etruscan Majolica Blue-Ground Swan and Lily Sardine Box and Cover and Stand. Circa 1880, rectangular, the flat cover with a white swan nesting among reeds, the sides and stand molded with blossoming yellow water lilies alternate with lily pads, within brown rope twist rims, impressed GSH monogram mark and black painted 15 to stand, the box impressed uppercase mark and model no. N1, width of stand 9 inches.

Literature (Griffen, Smith & Hill Etruscan Majolica Swan-Form Paperweight ):
KL001557. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 153.

Reference (Griffen, Smith & Hill Etruscan Majolica Swan-Form Paperweight ):
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Edwin Atlee Barber, accession no. 1894-128.

Literature (Matched Griffen, Smith & Hill Etruscan Majolica Blue-Ground Swan and Lily Sardine Box and Cover and a Stand ):
KL000131. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 153.


C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection

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Matched Griffen, Smith & Hill Etruscan Majolica Blue-Ground Swan and Lily Sardine Box & Cover and a Stand: Chip to cover near finial and minor nicks to edges, stand married as ground color differs.
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