Lot 180
GORDON FORSYTH (1879-1952) FOR PILKINGTON'S TILE & POTTERY CO.
MONUMENTAL LANCASTRIAN LUSTRE PUNCH BOWL, DATED 1907
Auction: 3 April 2019 at 12:00 BST
£5,250
Description
decorated to the interior with a bacchanalian procession within and band of fruiting vines and bearing inscription to rim GOD OF YOUTH LET THIS DAY HERE ENTER WITHOUT CARE OR FEAR, impressed maker's marks and date, painted artist's cypher, bears applied exhibition label
Dimensions
50.5cm diameter
Footnote
Provenance: Richard Dennis 'Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery Exhibition', 1980, no. 324
Literature: Cross, Anthony 'Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery and Tiles', Richard Dennis, 1980, page 51, plate 60 where this example is illustrated.