A PAIR OF MINTON 'PERSIAN' TURQUOISE-GROUND BALUSTER VASES

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A PAIR OF MINTON 'PERSIAN' TURQUOISE-GROUND BALUSTER VASES
IMPRESSED DATE CODE FOR FEBRUARY 1872, IMPRESSED MARKS

In the Chinese taste with animal fixed ring handles, the body with brown painted biscuit bands of key and lappet, the turquoise ground gilt allover with scattered bees within gilt rims, small nicks to animal noses
9in. (23cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

'Persian Wares' decorated in Royal Persian turquoise including this form were featured by Minton at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, 1993, p. 108.