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Hand Painted Ceramic Sporting Panel Lucien Besche for Copeland Spode

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Signed With The Initials 'LB' and Incised With The WTC Copeland monogram. A mounted lancer gallops across the frame displaying the peg that he has uprooted from the ground, while other competitors, amongst them a few spectators, wait their turn in the background. Detailed research within the Copeland Spode archives and consultation with ceramic historians and technicians reveals that these important hand painted panels are probably the largest known examples of this kind of ceramic art from their day. Each single earthenware panel (made from the finest Cornish China Clay) would have been produced in a mould and fired and glazed a number of times. Their scale, the quality of the painting, and the vivid clarity of the cobalt blue establish them as a remarkable artistic and technical achievement for any era. The Collection was commissioned by Thomas Russell from Copeland Spode, for Cleveden House, Kelvinside, Glasgow, (designed and built by John Gordon in 1877) and Hand Painted by Robert John Abraham (1850-1925) and Lucien Besche (d.1901) in 1878.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 39 in (99.06 cm)Width: 33.5 in (85.09 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1878
  • Condition:
  • Seller Location:
    Newmanstown, PA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU9274237242282
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