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1866, IMPRESSED DATE CYPHER, MINTON MARKS AND SHAPE NO. 1241
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A MINTON MAJOLICA HERON AND PIKE EWER
1866, IMPRESSED DATE CYPHER, MINTON MARKS AND SHAPE NO. 1241
Modelled by Hugues Protât, the bird naturally modelled with grey, blue and white plumage, standing among reeds and lily pads on an oval mound base, with a fish in its beak forming the handle and spout of the ewer, incised signature to base
21½ in. (54.4 cm.) high
1866, IMPRESSED DATE CYPHER, MINTON MARKS AND SHAPE NO. 1241
Modelled by Hugues Protât, the bird naturally modelled with grey, blue and white plumage, standing among reeds and lily pads on an oval mound base, with a fish in its beak forming the handle and spout of the ewer, incised signature to base
21½ in. (54.4 cm.) high
Literature
W.B. Honey, Catalogue of the Porcelain and Pottery both Oriental and European in the Collection of Earl Spencer at Althorp, 1937, no. 953
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