A rare French Palissy-type glazed-earthenware fountain, circa 1600-1650, possibly Paris
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Description
modelled as a tall cone of rockwork with three apertures around the base, issuing three snake's heads and applied with lizards, frogs, a coiled snake, a crayfish and various shells, surmounted by a figure of a seated man playing the bagpipes, with blue, ochre, green and brown glazes, with applied paper label inscribed 'ON LOAN FROM Sir C. Isham June 21 1862', incised mark to flange of cover
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50 cm., 19 ¾ in. high overall
The Collection of Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet (1819–1903);
Thence by descent to;
Sir Gyles Isham, 12th Baronet (1903–1976), sold, 'The Property of Sir Gyles Isham, Bt.', Sotheby's, London, 21 May 1957, lot 111 (to A. Spero for £100).
The South Kensington Museum, London, June 1862, Special exhibition of works of art of the mediæval, Renaissance, and more recent periods, on loan at the South Kensington Museum.
J. C. Robinson, Catalogue of the special exhibition of works of art of the mediæval, Renaissance, and more recent periods, on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862, London, 1863, section 40, various addenda, p. 727, no. 8133.