Iconic Mintons Majolica 'Hare and Duck Head' Game-Pie Dish and Cover
The model attributed to Paul Comoléra, shape no. 1990, date cypher for 1876
Oval, the shallow domed cover molded with two addorsed rabbit heads and two mallard heads symmetrically arranged, the upright ears touching to form the handle, the cobalt blue domed cover studded with yellow florets, the fluted waisted tureen affixed to a yellow ground basketweave tray with green rope twist handles, impressed uppercase mark, shape no., two additional cyphers and blue painted 7 to base and cover. Width overall 18 1/8 inches.

Provenance:
With Charles Murphy, Animal Art, New Orleans, LA, October 6, 1995, and accompanied by a conservation record from Wiebold, Inc. Antique & Art Restoration, 9 October 1995 (not included).

Literature:
Eve M. Kahn, The Magazine Antiques, Ceramic Dynamic: Majolica, 17 May 2020, May/June, fig. 14. Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. 75, fig. 2.57.

Exhibited:
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-695; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.71; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.

Reference:
Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 48. The image courtesy of Jeremy Cooper Ltd. London Victoria Cecil, Minton 'Majolica', Jeremy Cooper Ltd., Exhibition 7-26 June 1982, Galen Place, London, p. 70 and cover illustration, cat. no. 52. Majolica Matters, June 2009, for an example in the Ed and Marilyn Flower Collection.


C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection

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Restoration to a small section on one end of the cover and to chips on the other.
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