A MINTONS TURQUOISE-GROUND BOTTLE COOLER

DATE CYPHER PROBABLY FOR 1906, PRINTED GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, GILT K AND J, PAINTED ::

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A MINTONS TURQUOISE-GROUND BOTTLE COOLER
Date cypher probably for 1906, printed gilt crowned globe and impressed uppercase marks, gilt k and j, painted ::
Modelled after the Sèvres Seau à Bouteille inspired by the service made for Catherine the Great, the cylindrical body with gilt scroll handles, the wide border set with portrait and mythological cameos after the antique on a turquoise ribbon flanked by interrupted floral garlands and gilt bands, the lower section with raised chased stiff-leaf tips
7½in. (19cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, p. 70 for a full page illustration of a similar example with the cameo reserves signed by Henri Boullemier. It has been speculated that the Mintons models were based on examples of the Catherine II service in the Collection of W.J. Goode, see Elizabeth Aslin and Paul Atterbury, Minton 1798-1910, Victoria & Albert Museum and Thomas Goode & Co. Ltd. Exhibition August - October 1976, p. 85-86, cat. Ml2.

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