Bottle
Category
Ceramics
Date
1560 (circa) - 1900
Materials
Maiolica and ormolu
Measurements
355 mm (H)
Place of origin
Urbino
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Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1296772
Summary
Pilgrim bottle, earthenware with tin-opacified lead glaze (maiolica), of flattened bottle shape with satyr’s mask handles, pierced spreading foot; polychrome painted with Adam and Eve with the serpent and the reverse the Fall of Man, Fontana workshop, Urbino, Italy, c. 1560, applied ormolu mounts probably France, c. 1765-70.
Provenance
Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), 3rd Bt., Sledmere, Yorkshire. Sold by Christie’s Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart, Deceased, brought from his late Seat at Sledmere, Yorkshire, London, May 14, 1824, Curiosities, Lot 12 ‘A flat Bottle of Raphael’s ware, with Satyrs head handles, and painted with the subject of the Creation of Adam and Eve in Paradise, the mounting French, of Or-moulu, also a glass shade.’ Purchased by Baldock (Edward Holmes Baldock, a London antique dealer), probably on behalf of Wilbraham Egerton. The 1909 Heirlooms at Tatton inventory records ‘Italian Majolica Vase with ormolu mounts & decorated with Landscape Adam & Eve’ in the Staircase Hall in Buhl Cabinet.