A VERY LARGE GERMAN EARTHENWARE 'HISTORISMUS' PRUNKVASE IN THE MINTON-STYLE, painted in dark colours, the globular body applied with four laurel wreaths suspending from four grotesque satyr masks, the upper and lower part gadrooned, with two scrolled handles, the everting rim with acanthus leaves, on square pedestal base, the flat cover with pinecone finial, 19th Century