Lot Essay
Cf. Joan Jones, Minton The First Two Hundred Years (London, 1993), p. 151
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YEAR CYPHER FOR 1874, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, SHAPE NUMBER 1884
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A Minton majolica teapot and cover modelled as a monkey
YEAR CYPHER FOR 1874, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, SHAPE NUMBER 1884
The monkey modelled holding a yellow coconut, wearing a dark-blue waistcoat decorated with pink japonaiserie flowers, a green knop to its head, its coat enriched in mottled grey-green, the looped tailed forming the handle, with a bamboo-moulded spout (minor repair)
9 in. (23 cm.) long
YEAR CYPHER FOR 1874, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, SHAPE NUMBER 1884
The monkey modelled holding a yellow coconut, wearing a dark-blue waistcoat decorated with pink japonaiserie flowers, a green knop to its head, its coat enriched in mottled grey-green, the looped tailed forming the handle, with a bamboo-moulded spout (minor repair)
9 in. (23 cm.) long
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