Lot Essay
Cf. Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton (London, 1990), p. 261
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YEAR CYPHER FOR 1880, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NUMBER 2077
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A Minton majolica stick-stand modelled as a faun
YEAR CYPHER FOR 1880, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NUMBER 2077
Modelled by Paul Comolera, the dappled faun standing raising its head eating an oak leaf, before a mottled-brown tree-trunk stand moulded with an ochre-coloured snake, leaves and ferns, on a shaped-circular grassy base issuing ferns and leaves (restored)
33 7/8 in. (86 cm.) high
YEAR CYPHER FOR 1880, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NUMBER 2077
Modelled by Paul Comolera, the dappled faun standing raising its head eating an oak leaf, before a mottled-brown tree-trunk stand moulded with an ochre-coloured snake, leaves and ferns, on a shaped-circular grassy base issuing ferns and leaves (restored)
33 7/8 in. (86 cm.) high
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