The Water Baby a rare Doulton Lambeth stoneware fountain by Gilbert Bayes for his own garden

The Water Baby a rare Doulton Lambeth stoneware fountain by Gilbert Bayes for his own garden, modelled as a young boy holding a large fish, glazed cream, purple, green and yellow, signed Gilbert Bayes in the cast on the base, professional restoration to neck, 49cm. high

Provenance

Gilbert Bayes' garden at Boundary Road, late 1920s

The Fine Art Society

Private Collection

Literature

Louise Irvine and Paul Atterbury Gilbert Bayes Sculptor 1872-1953 Richard Dennis/Fine Art Society 1998, page 32 for a contemporary photograph of the fountain in situ at Boundary Road. Page 146 for a version of the stoneware fountain (1927) and page 148 for a bronze maquette for a sculpture of this subject, (1928).

Exhibited

Royal Academy 1927, a version exhibited