A PAIR OF MINTONS BLEU CELESTE TWO-HANDLED SLENDER OVIFORM VASES AND COVERS with gilt conical finials, each painted by J. E. Dean with a continuous frieze of sailing-ships on calm waters with windmills on islands, within seeded gilt bands suspending swags of beads, on spreading bases (one with restoration to handles), signed, pink printed marks, incised marks, pattern numbers OA1341, circa 1895
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A PAIR OF MINTONS BLEU CELESTE TWO-HANDLED SLENDER OVIFORM VASES AND COVERS with gilt conical finials, each painted by J. E. Dean with a continuous frieze of sailing-ships on calm waters with windmills on islands, within seeded gilt bands suspending swags of beads, on spreading bases (one with restoration to handles), signed, pink printed marks, incised marks, pattern numbers OA1341, circa 1895
6in. (15.2cm.) high (2)
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James Edward Dean worked at the Minton factory circa 1880-1935 and specialised in painting marine subjects, landscapes, fish and game