Lot Essay
A Minton jardinière in the same spirit as the present teapot noted as "probably" designed by Christopher Dresser is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1995.273).
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DATE CYPHER FOR 1879, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK AND CYPHER, THE DESIGN POSSIBLY BY CHRISTOPHER DRESSER
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A MINTONS MAJOLICA TEAPOT AND COVER
DATE CYPHER FOR 1879, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK AND CYPHER, THE DESIGN POSSIBLY BY CHRISTOPHER DRESSER
In the Chinoiserie taste, one side molded with turtles among whirling waves, the other with a crane holding peaches in its beak, pine, prunus and bamboo at the rim, the finial as a bat
8 in. (20.3 cm.) long
DATE CYPHER FOR 1879, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK AND CYPHER, THE DESIGN POSSIBLY BY CHRISTOPHER DRESSER
In the Chinoiserie taste, one side molded with turtles among whirling waves, the other with a crane holding peaches in its beak, pine, prunus and bamboo at the rim, the finial as a bat
8 in. (20.3 cm.) long