A PAIR OF MINTON RETICULATED TURQUOISE-GROUND VASES AND COVERS

GREEN ERMINE MARKS, CIRCA 1865

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A PAIR OF MINTON RETICULATED TURQUOISE-GROUND VASES AND COVERS
GREEN ERMINE MARKS, CIRCA 1865
Modelled after a Sèvres 'Vase Ferré', each with reticulated cover and gilt pinecone finial, the oviform body moulded with four panels linked by straps and suspended from gilt ropes and ribbon-tied oak garlands, painted with alternate seacapes or pastoral views, one of the White Cliffs of Dover and the other of Mont Saint-Michel, raised on a fluted socle and square base
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

See The Pompey Collection, Christie's, New York, 23 May 2002, lot 128 and 129 for similar examples. It is interesting to note that both the form and the views on this pair of vases are indicative of the Anglo-French style fashionable in the mid-19th century.

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