A MINTON MAJOLICA DARK-BLUE-GROUND MARINE VASE, the amphora-shaped body moulded as interlocking scallop-shells with laurel-wreaths pendent from the crests, below a manganese and blue gadroon-moulded neck and green everted rim, the body firmly supported in the grasp of two flanking tritons with wreaths of bulrushes in their hair and with intertwined tails forming the stem, on a fluted circular base (some cracks, flaking and staining to glaze, chip to inner rim of base), impressed marks and model number 1862, date code for 1869 | Christie's

Lot 222

222

A MINTON MAJOLICA DARK-BLUE-GROUND MARINE VASE, the amphora-shaped body moulded as interlocking scallop-shells with laurel-wreaths pendent from the crests, below a manganese and blue gadroon-moulded neck and green everted rim, the body firmly supported in the grasp of two flanking tritons with wreaths of bulrushes in their hair and with intertwined tails forming the stem, on a fluted circular base (some cracks, flaking and staining to glaze, chip to inner rim of base), impressed marks and model number 1862, date code for 1869

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A MINTON MAJOLICA DARK-BLUE-GROUND MARINE VASE, the amphora-shaped body moulded as interlocking scallop-shells with laurel-wreaths pendent from the crests, below a manganese and blue gadroon-moulded neck and green everted rim, the body firmly supported in the grasp of two flanking tritons with wreaths of bulrushes in their hair and with intertwined tails forming the stem, on a fluted circular base (some cracks, flaking and staining to glaze, chip to inner rim of base), impressed marks and model number 1862, date code for 1869
16in. (40.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Victoria Cecil, Minton Majolica, Exhibition Catalogue, Jeremy Cooper Ltd, p. 64, no. 59 where it is noted that this vase was modelled on a vase aux tritons, made at Vincennes in 1754

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