A MINTON MAJOLICA COBALT-BLUE GROUND GARDEN SEAT

DATE CYPHER FOR 1864, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND VARIOUS MARKS, SHAPE NO. 982

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A MINTON MAJOLICA COBALT-BLUE GROUND GARDEN SEAT
Date cypher for 1864, impressed uppercase and various marks, shape no. 982
Moulded in bas-relief with alternating palmettes and stylized upright passion flowers above further scrolls and stiff leaf-tips and a beaded guillouche, on three key-pattern bracket feet
18½ in. (47 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See an anonymous sale, Bonham's, London, 18 November 2003, lot 51 for a similar example; also see Christie's, London, 4 November 2004 for a similar pair of garden seats; and Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica a Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 58 for a similar example.

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