A MINTON HENRI DEUX WARE CREAM-GROUND EARTHENWARE SALT by Charles Toft, in the St. Porchaire style, painted in brown, ochre and cream with interlaced tendrils, diaper and ropetwist simulating inlaid clays and modelled as Cupid standing within a hollow hexagonal column pierced with lozenge-shaped windows, surmounted by a circular dish applied around the sides with grotesque masks and scallop shells, the corners of the column moulded with slender columns with mask terminals, on a reeded base similarly moulded with grotesque masks and with truncated column feet, the moulded details enriched in blue, green and yellow, painted Minton mark and C. Toft (minute glaze chips, some restoration to feet, segment of lower body restuck), circa 1872

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A MINTON HENRI DEUX WARE CREAM-GROUND EARTHENWARE SALT by Charles Toft, in the St. Porchaire style, painted in brown, ochre and cream with interlaced tendrils, diaper and ropetwist simulating inlaid clays and modelled as Cupid standing within a hollow hexagonal column pierced with lozenge-shaped windows, surmounted by a circular dish applied around the sides with grotesque masks and scallop shells, the corners of the column moulded with slender columns with mask terminals, on a reeded base similarly moulded with grotesque masks and with truncated column feet, the moulded details enriched in blue, green and yellow, painted Minton mark and C. Toft (minute glaze chips, some restoration to feet, segment of lower body restuck), circa 1872
5 1/8in. (13cm.) high

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In 1864, the South Kensington Museum purchased their second piece of faïence de Saint-Porchaire, both reflecting and contributing to popular interest in the pottery of the Renaissance. Minton was not slow to exploit this and to produce copies; Charles Toft worked for almost all of his fifteen years at Minton on these wares. Cf. Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, eds., op. cit., p. 312, for a similar salt. For a discussion of these wares, see Paul Atterbury, 'Too Good to be True?', Country Life, June 14, 1990. A St. Porchaire example sold in these Rooms, 13 March 1989, lot 207