A MINTON MAJOLICA COMPORT formed as two playful young bacchanals scantily clad in a brown drape, their bodies entwined around each other, one kneeling on a tambourine, supporting a gadroon-moulded pierced shallow basket with a green exterior and turquoise interior, on a grassy mound moulded with wheat and ivy, on a waisted gadroon-moulded circular base (segment of rim with damage and repair, and with additional crack), impressed marks, date code for 1861