A MINTON MAJOLICA OVAL SEAFOOD DISH, the cover modelled as a large crab resting on a bed of green seaweed, the fronds curling up its back to form a loop handle, the dish glazed in turquoise on the interior and with a border of twelve dark-blue and mottled-ochre-glazed receptacles divided by bands of entwined ropetwist separating around the edge of the dish to form a scalloped rim, the underside with a light tortoiseshell glaze, impressed M and triangle, date code for 1859