A PAIR OF MINTON TURQUOISE-GROUND BALUSTER VASES with short cylindrical necks and gilt fixed ring handles, with an overall gilt fret-pattern imitating cloisonné, and the necks with a horizontal gilt band of stylised key-pattern edged with white rope-twist, the bases moulded in relief with lappets and key-pattern simulating bronze mounts enriched with gilt studs and on four feet (wear to gilding and to brown enamel underneath base, one with internal cracks to lower body and base, some crazing to glaze), impressed marks, date codes for 1861