Lot Essay
For an example of this form displayed at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, see the view of the A.B. Daniell & Son stand illustrated by P. Atterbury and M. Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, Suffolk, 1990, p. 79. For a pair of pedestals of related form, see the note to the following lot. For a nearly identical example, dated 1875, see Christie's, London, 2 November 1999, lot 86.