Lot 417
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A PAIR OF MINTON 'JEWELLED' BLEU CELESTE 'ROPE FESTOON' VASES AND COVERS modelled after Sèvres originals, painted with ribbon-tied baskets of flowers and fruit, the reverses with meandering coiled bouquets within shaped seeded gilt white-ground cartouches enriched with white 'jewels', the necks painted with birds in shrubby landscape vignettes within seeded gilt oval medallions, on waisted stems and square bases, the covers with triple ring finials (chip to one cover, slight wear to gilding and flaking to blue enamel), four original paper labels for Daniell, 129, New Bond St., circa 1855

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A PAIR OF MINTON 'JEWELLED' BLEU CELESTE 'ROPE FESTOON' VASES AND COVERS modelled after Sèvres originals, painted with ribbon-tied baskets of flowers and fruit, the reverses with meandering coiled bouquets within shaped seeded gilt white-ground cartouches enriched with white 'jewels', the necks painted with birds in shrubby landscape vignettes within seeded gilt oval medallions, on waisted stems and square bases, the covers with triple ring finials (chip to one cover, slight wear to gilding and flaking to blue enamel), four original paper labels for Daniell, 129, New Bond St., circa 1855
10¾in. (27.3cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First two Hundred Years of Design and Production, p. 78 for a page from the pattern book showing vases in the Sèvres style. See also Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, (eds.), The Dictionary of Minton, p. 86 for a similar pair. The shape was also produced at Coalport, see Geoffrey Godden, Coalport and Coalbrookdale Porcelains, pl. 230B for a selection of wares shown at the Dublin Exhibiton of 1853, illustrated in the Art Journal magazine

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