A PORTUGUESE MAJOLICA TROMPE L'OEIL CUP AND SAUCER AND A MONKEY TEAPOT

IMPRESSED CROWN MARK FOR M.(ANUEL) MAFRA, CALDAS, TO ALL, CIRCA 1880

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A PORTUGUESE MAJOLICA TROMPE L'OEIL CUP AND SAUCER AND A MONKEY TEAPOT
IMPRESSED CROWN MARK FOR M.(ANUEL) MAFRA, CALDAS, TO ALL, CIRCA 1880
The cup and saucer moulded as overlapping cabbage leaves, the handle as a snake entwined around the footrim; the teapot modelled as a monkey seated on a rock and nibbling a nut, it's curled tail as the handle, a serpent as the spout
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high (3)

拍品專文

See Katz, Portuguese, p. 40, fig. 26 for a cabbage and snake tea-service by this manufacture, Coutesy of Cara Antiques, Newtown, Pennsylvania. Also see Caldas, p. 90, fig. 259 for a similarly conceived cup and saucer by J.A. Cunha.