LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

16.14 in. (41.00 cm.) (height) by 37.01 in. (94.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated Lojacono 74 lower right

Exhibited:

Paris, 1878

Provenance:

Either Sir Henry Doulton or his son Ronald Duneau Doulton (a gift from the Egyptian Government in the late 1870s. Henry Doulton (1820-1897) joined his father's pottery workshops, developing glazes and initiating the manufacture of drainage pipes that made Doulton a household name. The company exhibited its wares in Philadelphia in 1876 and in Paris at the Exposition Universelle two years later, following which Doulton was made a Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur. He was knighted in 1887).; Orrok Mills Doulton (son of Ronald Duneau Doulton); Peter Duke Doulton (son of the above); Ian Duke Doulton (son of the above); Thence by descent to the present owner (daughter of the above)