A PAIR OF MINTON MAJOLICA SHELL-FORM CENTERPIECES

IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS AND MODEL NOS. 1291 AND 1292, DATE CYPHERS FOR 1869 AND 1870

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A PAIR OF MINTON MAJOLICA SHELL-FORM CENTERPIECES
IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS AND MODEL NOS. 1291 AND 1292, DATE CYPHERS FOR 1869 AND 1870
Modelled as a triton and as a mermaid swimming through waves, each supporting a shell on his or her back and tail
9½ in. (24 cm.) high, the taller (2)

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The present model, based on a bronze by M. Gautier exhibited at the Exposition of 1862, was also produced by Minton in tinted and glazed parian. See Victoria & Albert Museum and Thomas Goode & Co Ltd, Exhibition Catalogue: Minton 1798 - 1910, London 1976, cat. no. E15 for an example in this medium formerly in the collection of the Minton Museum, Stoke-on-Trent.

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