A MINTON MAJOLICA EWER after a model by Hughues Protât and formed as a barrel, compressed and turned on its side with four playful putti applied on the shoulders below a flared neck, one cherub clasping a bunch of grapes growing from an entwined double-branch handle, the fruiting and leafy terminals extending around the body and foot, another putto holding aloft a goblet and a third with a tambourine, incised monogram below handle, impressed marks and model number 900, date code for 1862

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A MINTON MAJOLICA EWER after a model by Hughues Protât and formed as a barrel, compressed and turned on its side with four playful putti applied on the shoulders below a flared neck, one cherub clasping a bunch of grapes growing from an entwined double-branch handle, the fruiting and leafy terminals extending around the body and foot, another putto holding aloft a goblet and a third with a tambourine, incised monogram below handle, impressed marks and model number 900, date code for 1862
14¾in. (37.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Victoria Cecil, op. cit., no. 17, where it is noted that this ewer was illustratred in the Art Journal catalogue for the 1862 International Exhibition; see also Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, op. cit., p. 41

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