TRUMAN CAPOTE'S WATERMELON PLATES AND GREEN DISHES
Six pieces of glazed earthenware in the majolica manner. Four are modeled as a cut half-watermelon; the other two are larger, shallower dishes molded all over with the veining of a cabbage or lettuce leaf under a bright apple-green glaze.
Condition: good throughout, the glazes bright and the colors strong, with no cracks found. Light knife scratching to the wells of two of the watermelon pieces and a small glaze chip to the footrim of one green dish, with the usual minor glaze pinholing of the type.
Approx. Dimensions: the watermelon plates 8.25 " diameter x 1.75 " high
Artist or Maker: Bowls Signed Ladyfingers
Provenance: Truman Capote; Gerald Clarke, his biographer
This lot is part of The Magpie and the Swans: The Possessions of Truman Capote, collected over a lifetime between New York and Sagaponack, and preserved since 1984 by his biographer, Gerald Clarke.
Notes: Although care is taken to photograph and describe the item, absence of a condition report does not imply perfect condition. It is the responsibility of the buyer to verify the condition of the item, either in person or by requesting a condition report.
Appeal: ladyfingers, watermelon plates, majolica, cabbage leaf dish, trompe l'oeil pottery, figural pottery, green glazed earthenware, summer table, tableware, decorative arts, sagaponack, hamptons, truman capote
Six pieces of glazed earthenware in the majolica manner. Four are modeled as a cut half-watermelon; the other two are larger, shallower dishes molded all over with the veining of a cabbage or lettuce leaf under a bright apple-green glaze.
Condition: good throughout, the glazes bright and the colors strong, with no cracks found. Light knife scratching to the wells of two of the watermelon pieces and a small glaze chip to the footrim of one green dish, with the usual minor glaze pinholing of the type.
Approx. Dimensions: the watermelon plates 8.25 " diameter x 1.75 " high
Artist or Maker: Bowls Signed Ladyfingers
Provenance: Truman Capote; Gerald Clarke, his biographer
This lot is part of The Magpie and the Swans: The Possessions of Truman Capote, collected over a lifetime between New York and Sagaponack, and preserved since 1984 by his biographer, Gerald Clarke.
Notes: Although care is taken to photograph and describe the item, absence of a condition report does not imply perfect condition. It is the responsibility of the buyer to verify the condition of the item, either in person or by requesting a condition report.
Appeal: ladyfingers, watermelon plates, majolica, cabbage leaf dish, trompe l'oeil pottery, figural pottery, green glazed earthenware, summer table, tableware, decorative arts, sagaponack, hamptons, truman capote
