Harold Steward Rathbone 'Alfred Ye Greate' panel, after Ford Maddox Brown, 1900 Ceramic panel, painted and glazed. Mounted in a gilded frame. Panel: 69 x 57 cm With frame: 84 x 57 cm Produced by Della Robbia. Signed on the front bottom right with HR monogram and 1900, the reverse incised 986C 9/1900. Footnotes: Provenance 'The Harriman Judd Collection Part Two - British Art Pottery', Sotheby's New York, Saturday October 6th, 2001, sale 7709, lot 379. Literature The Birkenhead Della Robbia Pottery 1893-1906, exhibition catalogue, 30th September - 18th October 1980, Jeremy Cooper Limited, p. 58-59 (similar panel illustrated) Peter Hyland, The Della Robbia Pottery, Birkenhead 1894-1906, 2014, p. 243 - 244; Appendix B, 'Works by the Della Robbia Pottery and its designers exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery Autumn Exhibitions 1894-1906', p. 243, 1900, Exhibit number 1463, 'Alfred the Great' (Panel after the late Ford Maddox Brown), price £6.6s. Harold Rathbone became a pupil of Ford Maddox Brown in 1882 when FMB was working on a set of twelve murals for Manchester Town Hall which depicted the history of the city. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing