A MINTON MAJOLICA DARK-BLUE-GROUND BACCHUS JUG modelled by Hamlet Bourne in the Renaissance style, the tapering oval body with a scroll handle and moulded with green acanthus and a caryatid figure of Plenty, the spout with a satyr's mask, the sides moulded in relief with two oval cartouches enclosing reclining goddesses flanked by scrolling arabesques, and with a female and a bearded ram's mask, the lower body moulded with gadroons, on a flared foot (restoration to handle), impressed marks, model number 732, date code for 1869
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A MINTON MAJOLICA DARK-BLUE-GROUND BACCHUS JUG modelled by Hamlet Bourne in the Renaissance style, the tapering oval body with a scroll handle and moulded with green acanthus and a caryatid figure of Plenty, the spout with a satyr's mask, the sides moulded in relief with two oval cartouches enclosing reclining goddesses flanked by scrolling arabesques, and with a female and a bearded ram's mask, the lower body moulded with gadroons, on a flared foot (restoration to handle), impressed marks, model number 732, date code for 1869
10in. (25.5cm.) high
Lot Essay
Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, op. cit., p. 41 for a similar example