A MINTON MAJOLICA TOWER JUG with a hinged pewter mount, the tapering body moulded with medieval figures dancing around a tower, the entwined double-branch handle bound with green ribbon and with boughs entwined with ivy encircling the neck and base, the cover formed as a scallop-shell with a jester's head finial (cover restored), impressed mark and model number 1231, date code for 1877 | Christie's

Lot 203

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A MINTON MAJOLICA TOWER JUG with a hinged pewter mount, the tapering body moulded with medieval figures dancing around a tower, the entwined double-branch handle bound with green ribbon and with boughs entwined with ivy encircling the neck and base, the cover formed as a scallop-shell with a jester's head finial (cover restored), impressed mark and model number 1231, date code for 1877

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A MINTON MAJOLICA TOWER JUG with a hinged pewter mount, the tapering body moulded with medieval figures dancing around a tower, the entwined double-branch handle bound with green ribbon and with boughs entwined with ivy encircling the neck and base, the cover formed as a scallop-shell with a jester's head finial (cover restored), impressed mark and model number 1231, date code for 1877
13in. (33cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Nicholas M. Dawes, op. cit., p. 52, fig. 85; see also an example sold in these Rooms, 29 October 1992, lot 248

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