Lot 363
363
VARIOUS FACTORIES MAJOLICA WARES
A MINTONS MAJOLICA MONKEY TEAPOT AND COVER, the smiling creature's head forming the detachable cover and its curling tail forming the handle, wearing a blue waistcoat reserved with pink fans and green leaves, its body and limbs curved around a large yellow nut and its right hand clutching a green leaf issuing from the bamboo-moulded spout (spout restuck at base), impressed marks and model number 1844, date code for 1874

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A MINTONS MAJOLICA MONKEY TEAPOT AND COVER, the smiling creature's head forming the detachable cover and its curling tail forming the handle, wearing a blue waistcoat reserved with pink fans and green leaves, its body and limbs curved around a large yellow nut and its right hand clutching a green leaf issuing from the bamboo-moulded spout (spout restuck at base), impressed marks and model number 1844, date code for 1874
6in. (15.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, colour frontispiece, and also Victoria Cecil, Minton 'Majolica', exhibition catalogue, p. 35. Examples sold in these Rooms, 25 September 1986, lots 95, 96 and 97

See illustration on p.

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