A MINTON MAJOLICA 'LAZY SUSAN' designed in the gothic style by Augustus Welby Pugin, the turquoise ground with a central flowerhead and radiating interlaced strapwork enclosing white fleurs-de-lys within chocolate-brown cartouches, within a shaped green line rim, revolving on a spreading circular foot edged with a blue band of quatrefoils and lozenges (restored rim chip and minor small hairline cracks, typical slight wear to glaze on moulded surface), impressed mark and model number 700, circa 1880

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A MINTON MAJOLICA 'LAZY SUSAN' designed in the gothic style by Augustus Welby Pugin, the turquoise ground with a central flowerhead and radiating interlaced strapwork enclosing white fleurs-de-lys within chocolate-brown cartouches, within a shaped green line rim, revolving on a spreading circular foot edged with a blue band of quatrefoils and lozenges (restored rim chip and minor small hairline cracks, typical slight wear to glaze on moulded surface), impressed mark and model number 700, circa 1880
18½in. (47cm.) diam.

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Cf. Nicholas M. Dawes, op. cit., New York, 1990, p. 51, Figure 82; see also Victoria Bergesen, Majolica, London, 1989, p. 36, pl. 21 for similar examples

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