A MINTONS MAJOLICA MONKEY TEAPOT AND COVER formed as a smiling monkey clutching a large yellow coconut and wearing a dark-blue tunic enriched with red half-flowerheads, its detachable head forming the cover and its tail the handle, the spout moulded as a stick of bamboo issuing leaf terminals (chip to right ear and part of chin, surface chip to right elbow), impressed marks, model number 1844, date code for 1874