HAROLD STEWARD RATHBONE (BRITISH 1858-1929) FOR DELLA ROBBIA POTTERY'Alfred Ye Greate' panel, after Ford Maddox Brown, 1900
Moulded ceramic panel made in two sections, decorated in relief and depicting the Saxon King Alfred, painted in colours and glazed. Mounted in a gilded frame.
Panel: 69 cm x 57 cm
With frame: 84 cm x 57 cm
Signed on the front bottom right with HR monogram and 1900, the reverse incised 986C 9/1900.
FootnotesProvenance
'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.
HAROLD STEWARD RATHBONE (BRITISH 1858-1929) FOR DELLA ROBBIA POTTERY'Alfred Ye Greate' panel, after Ford Maddox Brown, 1900
Moulded ceramic panel made in two sections, decorated in relief and depicting the Saxon King Alfred, painted in colours and glazed. Mounted in a gilded frame.
Panel: 69 cm x 57 cm
With frame: 84 cm x 57 cm
Signed on the front bottom right with HR monogram and 1900, the reverse incised 986C 9/1900.
FootnotesProvenance
'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.
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