TWO MINTONS MAJOLICA COBALT-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES

DATE CYPHERS FOR 1892, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, CYPHERS AND SHAPE NO. 1359

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TWO MINTONS MAJOLICA COBALT-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES
DATE CYPHERS FOR 1892, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, CYPHERS AND SHAPE NO. 1359
After the Antique, each upper body molded in bas-relief with two Bacchanalian panels, centaurs abducting a nymph to one side, drunken Silenus being offered wine to the other, both with attendant putti, flanked by trailing ivy, the strap handles molded with berried vine, the lower bulbous body fluted, the foot and rim with gadroons
23 ½ in. (59.7 cm.) high

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For a period photograph of this form displayed on the A.B. Daniell & Sons stand at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, see P. Atterbury and M. Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, Suffolk, 1990, p. 79.

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