A PAIR OF MINTON GREEN-GROUND 'ROPE FESTOON' VASES

CIRCA 1855

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A PAIR OF MINTON GREEN-GROUND 'ROPE FESTOON' VASES
Circa 1855
Modelled after a Sèvres Vase Flacon à Cordes, each moulded in high-relief with gilt rope, the painted ribbon-tied neck suspending fruiting oak branches entwined with rich flower garlands, on beaded socle and square base
12 5/8in. (32cm.) high (2)

Provenance

The Royal Crown Derby and Minton Museums
Art and Industry Sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 November 1999, lot 83

Lot Essay

See Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Mintons, Suffolk, p. 86 for a similar pair of vases; and Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, p. 78 for a watercolour from the Minton Ornamental Shape Books listing this form as shape no. 466.

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