AN ENGLISH MAJOLICA DARK-BLUE-GROUND OVIFORM VASE, the shoulders modelled in high relief with two owls' mask handles, the birds with shaded yellow, grey and brown plumage, their neck-feathers radiating around their faces, below a stepped shaded yellow short neck and on a beaded flared foot moulded with yellow and brown flutes and with a brown-line rim (crack to foot), probably Minton, circa 1870