A Minton majolica cobalt-blue-ground teapot and cover

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A Minton majolica cobalt-blue-ground teapot and cover
modelled as a flat iron, moulded with a frieze of mice, the finial formed as a mouse holding a carrot, the cable handle surmounted by a cat, indistinct model number 622, moulded registration lozenge and impressed marks, indistinct year cypher, possibly for 1876 (two tiny chips to the footrim of the cover, and a small glaze flake to the cat's ear) -- 20cm. high
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Lot Essay

Cf. Paul Atterbury & Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton (1990), p. 214. Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (1990), p. 65, figure 111, for a pale-blue-ground example; Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica A Complete History and Illustrated Survey (1989), dust jacket, frontispiece and p. 52, for an attribution to Dr. Christopher Dresser; see also the example sold Christie's East, 13 March 2001, lot 256.

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