Lot Essay
Cf. Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production (1993), p. 63 for a related service.
Details
A Minton turquoise-ground part dessert service
painted with birds among blossoming branches within pierced key pattern borders between seeded gilt bands, comprising: a high comport, two low comports and seven plates, pattern G2819, impressed marks and year cyphers for 1877 (one plate restored, one low comport with the foot broken and repaired, both with cracked feet, some crazing)
See colour plate 7 (10)
painted with birds among blossoming branches within pierced key pattern borders between seeded gilt bands, comprising: a high comport, two low comports and seven plates, pattern G2819, impressed marks and year cyphers for 1877 (one plate restored, one low comport with the foot broken and repaired, both with cracked feet, some crazing)
See colour plate 7 (10)