A MINTONS TURQUOISE-GROUND VASE AND COVER of waisted-cylindrical form, with two white and gilt pierced scroll and leaf-moulded handles and a pinecone finial, painted by Antonin Boullemier with a young girl wearing a red cap, scanty white robe and sandals, seated in a landscape feeding chickens from a bowl, within a seeded gilt scroll and foliage cartouche, the waisted neck and foot pierced with white and gilt lappets (crack to cover, crazing to glaze, glaze cracks to interior of base), signed, pink printed marks, impressed marks, 1895-1900