Lot Essay
See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 176 for two tiles of the same design as the present Mintons example.
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LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, ONE TILE IMPRESSED MINTON'S CHINA WORKS, STOKE ON TRENT, TWO IMPRESSED BOULENGER & CIE A CHOISY LE ROI, THE LAST IMPRESSED MONTREAUX B & C, CREIL AND SIGNED NOGENT LE ROTROU
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AN ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL GILT-BRASS AND CERAMIC MOUNTED AESTHETIC MOVEMENT JARDINIERE
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, ONE TILE IMPRESSED MINTON'S CHINA WORKS, STOKE ON TRENT, TWO IMPRESSED BOULENGER & CIE A CHOISY LE ROI, THE LAST IMPRESSED MONTREAUX B & C, CREIL AND SIGNED NOGENT LE ROTROU
Set with four tiles, the Mintons example painted with brightly colored nasturtiums on a black-ground, the Boulenger examples painted with either rose briar and a view of a pastoral or love birds perched on a branch on a pink-ground, in the Japonisme taste, the Montreaux example painted with a village street, a chateau in the distance, all set within a metal frame cast with stiff-leaves and suspending moths from chains, the lower portion with a small vase enamelled with budding and blooming flowers and a moth, above a small square blue and white tile set within a pierced foliate shelf, all on four aquatic bird feet
38 in. (96.5 cm.) high, overall
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, ONE TILE IMPRESSED MINTON'S CHINA WORKS, STOKE ON TRENT, TWO IMPRESSED BOULENGER & CIE A CHOISY LE ROI, THE LAST IMPRESSED MONTREAUX B & C, CREIL AND SIGNED NOGENT LE ROTROU
Set with four tiles, the Mintons example painted with brightly colored nasturtiums on a black-ground, the Boulenger examples painted with either rose briar and a view of a pastoral or love birds perched on a branch on a pink-ground, in the Japonisme taste, the Montreaux example painted with a village street, a chateau in the distance, all set within a metal frame cast with stiff-leaves and suspending moths from chains, the lower portion with a small vase enamelled with budding and blooming flowers and a moth, above a small square blue and white tile set within a pierced foliate shelf, all on four aquatic bird feet
38 in. (96.5 cm.) high, overall