A MINTONS VULTURE AND SNAKE TEAPOT AND COVER

PUCE PRINTED CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, MODEL NO. 1851, DESIGNED BY H.H. CREALOCK, INDISTINCT DATE CYPHER FOR CIRCA 1872

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A MINTONS VULTURE AND SNAKE TEAPOT AND COVER
PUCE PRINTED CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, MODEL NO. 1851, DESIGNED BY H.H. CREALOCK, INDISTINCT DATE CYPHER FOR CIRCA 1872
Modelled as a vulture attacking a serpent, the raptor with pink neck, ochre and brown plummage and dark wing tips, the mottled-green serpent with brown scales and dark-green spots, on a rocky-mound base
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

There appear to be only two other recorded examples of this model, both in majolica. Cf. Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, London, 1990, p. 277, pl. 53; Victoria Bergesen, Majolica, British, Continental and American Wares, 1851-1915, London, 1989, p. 44, fig. 31, courtesy of Sotheby's; Marilyn Karmason with Joan Stacke, Majolica, New York, 2002, p. 205 and an anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 2 November 1999, lot 32 ($56,580)

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