A PAIR OF MINTON MAJOLICA TURQUOISE-GROUND FIGURAL 'MARINE VASES'

DATE CYPHERS FOR 1869, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1362 AND PAINTED 3

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A PAIR OF MINTON MAJOLICA TURQUOISE-GROUND FIGURAL 'MARINE VASES'
Date cyphers for 1869, impressed uppercase marks, shape no. 1362 and painted 3
Each of campana form, moulded as a rocaille-shell, the upright pistol handles suspending berried swags, supported by two bearded tritons with bulrushes in their hair, emerging from the sea, their tails entwined around the socle, above a circular foot
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

See Victoria Cecil, Minton Majolica, Exhibition Catalogue, Jeremy Cooper Ltd., p. 64, no. 58; Also compare anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 16 March 1999, lot 71; For a cobalt-blue example see Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 209.