A PAIR OF MINTONS TURQUOISE-GROUND VASES of bottle shape, painted in colours with meandering fruiting and flowering branches of strawberry, the knopped shaped-cylindrical necks with gilt rims and gilt bands enriched with black dots and concentric lines at the bases, on gilt flared feet enriched with black dots and key-pattern, impressed and pink printed marks and model numbers 1533, date codes for 1873, 7½in. (19cm.) high; and a white-ground Japanesque plate painted with a crane in flight beside flowers growing in a pond, reserved on a turquoise fan with printed and painted sticks tied with pink ribbon, within a gilt dentil rim (crack alongside rim), iron-red pattern number G2212, impressed and pink printed marks, John Mortlock retailer's marks, circa 1873, 9in. (23cm.) diam. (3)

细节

A PAIR OF MINTONS TURQUOISE-GROUND VASES of bottle shape, painted in colours with meandering fruiting and flowering branches of strawberry, the knopped shaped-cylindrical necks with gilt rims and gilt bands enriched with black dots and concentric lines at the bases, on gilt flared feet enriched with black dots and key-pattern, impressed and pink printed marks and model numbers 1533, date codes for 1873, 7½in. (19cm.) high; and a white-ground Japanesque plate painted with a crane in flight beside flowers growing in a pond, reserved on a turquoise fan with printed and painted sticks tied with pink ribbon, within a gilt dentil rim (crack alongside rim), iron-red pattern number G2212, impressed and pink printed marks, John Mortlock retailer's marks, circa 1873, 9in. (23cm.) diam. (3)

拍品专文

Cf. Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, p. 102 for another vase of this shape