Arts and Crafts - 24th August 2021
Lot 292
Henry Stacy Marks (1829-1898)
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £1800
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Description
Henry Stacy Marks (1829-1898)
Seven Ages of Man
a large Minton's Art Pottery Studio tile plaque, dated 1874, painted with two medieval young men delivering a note to a nobleman on a formal terrace setting, in colours highlighted with a gilt sky, in oak frame, impressed and painted factory marks, 52 x 25.5cm.
Catalogue notes
The scene from As you Like it by William Shakespeare depicts Jacques being petitioned by two beggars.