Lot Essay
Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey (New York, 1989), frontispiece, and p. 205, for a similar teapot.
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YEAR CYPHER FOR 1878, IMPRESSED MARKS, MOULDED REGISTRATION LOZENGE
Details
A Minton majolica blowfish teapot and cover
Year cypher for 1878, impressed marks, moulded registration lozenge
The finial moulded as a fin, the fish of slightly oval form, his open mouth forming the spout, the handle modelled in the form of a branch of seaweed with a snail as the thumbpiece, the shaped oval base moulded with scrolling reeds (spout reduced, cover with chip to rim and to finial, inner rim broken and restuck with a small section lacking, slight crack from base)
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) wide
Year cypher for 1878, impressed marks, moulded registration lozenge
The finial moulded as a fin, the fish of slightly oval form, his open mouth forming the spout, the handle modelled in the form of a branch of seaweed with a snail as the thumbpiece, the shaped oval base moulded with scrolling reeds (spout reduced, cover with chip to rim and to finial, inner rim broken and restuck with a small section lacking, slight crack from base)
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) wide
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