Joseph Holdcroft Majolica Water Lily Umbrella or Stick Stand
Circa 1880
Cylindrical, naturalistically molded with pond lilies, broad fronds, and ferns, on a stepped brown circular foot, impressed uppercase mark J. Holdcroft, 2, and blue painted Ll, height 21 3/4 inches; Together with a Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Majolica Brown-Ground Bramble Flower-Pot. Date code AWV for 1867, modeled by Joseph Birks, molded with blackberry briar, the branch feet with oak leaf terminals, impressed uppercase mark and registry diamond 18-X-G-1 for 1868, blue painted 7. Height 12 1/2 inches.

Joseph Birks was recorded at Wedgwood from 1867-1875.

Literature (Joseph Holdcroft Majolica Water Lily Umbrella or Stick Stand):
Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, fig. 22.14.

Literature (Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Majolica Brown-Ground Bramble Flower-Pot):
Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, fig. 14.30.

Reference (Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Majolica Brown-Ground Bramble Flower-Pot):
Maureen Batkin, Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959, p. 43, pl. 68. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 74 and p. 70 for an advertisement catalogue page circa 1876, featuring this form.


C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection

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