Christmas Tree a rare Doulton Lambeth stoneware washing post finial by Gilbert Bayes

Christmas Tree a rare Doulton Lambeth stoneware washing post finial by Gilbert Bayes, for St Nicholas' Flats 1937, modelled as a tree decorated with baubles and candles, with inscribed banner Peace on Earth Good Will to Men, glazed in colours signed in the cast Bayes, old restoration to banner, 54cm. high

Provenance

Fine Art Society

Private collection

Literature

Louise Irvine and Paul Atterbury Gilbert Bayes Sculptor 1872-1953 Richard Dennis/Fine Art Society 1998, page 171 for an illustration of the Christmas Tree.