Live Auction 22125The Ann and Gordon Getty Collection: Temple of Wings
WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917)
Lot 32

WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917)

A charger, late 19th century

Closed14 June 2023

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WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917)
A charger, late 19th century
glazed and lustre-decorated ceramic
Painted with a stag on a flowering grassy ground in gold lustre and against a fruiting tree in ruby lustre, a lizard climbing its trunk, the underside painted with ruby lustre bands
C.P monogram for decorator Charles Passenger
14 7/8 in. (37.8 cm.) diameter

The Fine Art Society, London.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above in July 1996.

Specialist note

A variant example of this pattern, the stag painted in ruby lustre against a gold lustre tree, its underside also bearing the monogram of Charles Passenger, is illustrated in M. Greenwood and R. Dennis, The Designs of William de Morgan, Ilminster, 1989, p. 209, pl. 41.