Property from a Private Canadian Collection
A Pâte-sur-pâte Large Black-Ground Rectangular Plaque by John Cope, Circa 1890
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October 18, 05:23 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Pâte-sur-pâte Large Black-Ground Rectangular Plaque by John Cope, Circa 1890
decorated in white slip with a vignette of a young woman holding a basket of fruit standing beneath a tree, with a child pulling at her skirts and a leashed dog at his side, incised monogram, in a gilt-wood frame.
Plaque 7 5/8 x 16 1/4 in.; Overall 14 1/2 x 23 in.
40 x 21.6 cm; 37 x 58.5 cm
Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, notes on p. 219 that Cope possibly worked in Limoges, France based on the survival of a piece signed 'J. Cope Limoges. On p. 177, Bumpus reproduces a passage from E. G. Elwyn, 'Pâte-sur-pâte Porcelain' Connoisseur, 98, 1936, 208, in which Elwyn is likely referring to the present plaque, or one of the design, as being in a collection in Colorado, decorated "with a child and a "beautiful young woman carrying a basket of fruit"".
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