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Lot 1297
A Collection of Six Majolica Items
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 19th-early 20th century, polychrome glazed earthenware, to include a pitcher with bamboo and banana leaf decoration, having British registration mark to underside likely Wardle & Co. (8 in.); the second a pineapple form teapot with lid (6 1/2 in.); the third a Bohemian lidded sardine dish with integral underplate, mark of Wilhelm Schiller & Sons, pattern number 219 (3 1/2 x 8 x 7 3/8 in.); and two leaf dishes, one in the Etruscan pattern with mark of Griffen, Smith and Hill (9 in.); and a framed tondo relief dish/plaque of a man in feathered hat (13 1/2 in.).

From the Collection of the late Michael Joyce and Archie Carter III, Greensboro, North Carolina
Proceeds to Benefit Greensboro Urban Ministry

Pitcher with small firing hairline to upper rim; smaller leaf dish with some glaze grazing and a few glaze flakes to rim and foot rim; sardine lid and upper rim with cracks and repairs; plaque with crack; teapot lid with chip and associated hairline, hairline to underside; profile portrait with repair to far right side.