DATE CYPHER FOR 1879, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, RECORDED AS SHAPE NO. 2227

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A MINTONS MAJOLICA TURQUOISE-GROUND PEDESTAL
DATE CYPHER FOR 1879, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, RECORDED AS SHAPE NO. 2227
Molded with ribbon-tied swags of fruit and flowers, a band of stiff-leaf tips at the rim
38 ½ in. (97.8 cm.) high

Provenance

With Nicolaus Boston, Internet, 1 November 2008.

Lot Essay

For a pair of similar pedestals, see Victoria Bergesen, Majolica: British, Continental and American Wares, 1851-1915, London, 1989, p. 97. Also compare Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, Suffolk, 1990, p. 158.

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