Lot 47
WEMYSS WARE
'KESTREL' GORDON DESSERT PLATE
Auction: 24 January 2024 from 10:00 GMT
£1,071
Description
glazed earthenware, painted by Karel Nekola, painted inscription FAUCON CRESSERELLETTE/ (FALCO TINNUNEULOIDES NATTER.)/ KAREL NEKOLA/ 1909, impressed maker’s mark WEMYSS
Dimensions
21cm diameter
Footnote
Literature: Davis P. et al Wemyss Ware: A Decorative Scottish Pottery Scottish Academic Press, 1986, p.83, fig. 119, where this unique example is illustrated.
Note: This plate, and the following lot, formed part of an impressive set of Gordon plates specially commissioned and painted with birds of prey. The Latin names of the birds are fastidiously recorded on the reverse as is the decorator's name and the date, very rarely seen.