Large Mafra Majolica Palissy cabbage sugar pot & cover

Victorian, circa 1890. 7.4ins high, 7.5ins wide, 7.5ins depth. Mafra Portuguese Palissy Majolica sugar bowl which features a cabbage head with a snake coiled around the stem.



Colouration: green, grey, ochre, are predominant.













The piece bears maker's marks for the Mafra pottery.



Book reference not found.

Condition

CONDITION: Pot: Good.

Small chip to bowl rim.



KILN EFFECTS: touch mark to one leaf edge;



glaze accumulation to the leaves









and lower base edge;



glaze run to the base;



flecks of stray coloured glaze to the leaves.





RESTORATION. Two leaves reglued and joins retouched.





Filled chips to leaf edges





and lower base edge.





Cover: Good. No restoration.

Chips to stilt marks.



KILN EFFECTS: glaze accumulation to the rim.







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