A PAIR OF MINTONS TURQUOISE-GROUND VASES of bottle shape, painted in colours with meandering fruiting and flowering branches of strawberry, the knopped shaped-cylindrical necks with gilt rims and gilt bands enriched with black dots and concentric lines at the bases, on gilt flared feet enriched with black dots and key-pattern, impressed and pink printed marks and model numbers 1533, date codes for 1873, 7½in. (19cm.) high; and a white-ground Japanesque plate painted with a crane in flight beside flowers growing in a pond, reserved on a turquoise fan with printed and painted sticks tied with pink ribbon, within a gilt dentil rim (crack alongside rim), iron-red pattern number G2212, impressed and pink printed marks, John Mortlock retailer's marks, circa 1873, 9in. (23cm.) diam. (3)