Lot Essay
Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason & Joan B. Stacke, Majolica A Complete History and Illustrated Survey (1989), p. 50 for a similar dish with a spoon.
Details
A Minton majolica chestnut dish
moulded with an open chestnut, the leaves forming a half cover, the rim with a scroll handle, the border moulded with stylised sprays of leaves upon a brown-ground below a shaped rim, with a pale-blue interior and pierced well, on a circular flared foot, indistinct shape number 594, impressed mark, circa 1875 -- 29cm. wide
moulded with an open chestnut, the leaves forming a half cover, the rim with a scroll handle, the border moulded with stylised sprays of leaves upon a brown-ground below a shaped rim, with a pale-blue interior and pierced well, on a circular flared foot, indistinct shape number 594, impressed mark, circa 1875 -- 29cm. wide
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