Lot Essay
Cf. Joan Jones, Minton - The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production (Shrewsbury, 1993), p. 65.
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CIRCA 1865, INDISTINCT DATE CODE, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, T. GOODE & CO. RETAILER'S MARKS
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A pair of Minton bleu-céleste-ground dessert-tazzas
CIRCA 1865, INDISTINCT DATE CODE, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, T. GOODE & Co. RETAILER'S MARKS
Modelled with three white biscuit putti scantily-clad in lion-skins seated on scrolled bracket supports beneath a pierced circular dish on spreading pedestal bases moulded with three richly-gilt cartouches containing the floral entwined monogram RS, suspended from gilt scrolling acanthus leaves and above richly-gilt swags of wreaths, within gilt lines (one bowl broken and repaired)
9 in. (23 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1865, INDISTINCT DATE CODE, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, T. GOODE & Co. RETAILER'S MARKS
Modelled with three white biscuit putti scantily-clad in lion-skins seated on scrolled bracket supports beneath a pierced circular dish on spreading pedestal bases moulded with three richly-gilt cartouches containing the floral entwined monogram RS, suspended from gilt scrolling acanthus leaves and above richly-gilt swags of wreaths, within gilt lines (one bowl broken and repaired)
9 in. (23 cm.) high (2)
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