The similarities between the marked majolica lily vase (lot 121) and the present porcelain example are extraordinary and the basis for its attribution to the same factory.

This vase is most probably Minton, design no. 372 and listed in the factory's ornamental shapes book as a 'match pot, small size, lily' with no dimension. It would have been produced after 1848, as the sequential design numbers reached 367 in the beginning of March of that year. See Joan Jones, op. cit, p. 345.

For other examples of these lily vases see, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sotheby's New York, October 9 & 10, 1990, lot 183; and the Garbisch Collection, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., May 17, 1980, lot 109