TWO LARGE MINTON MAJOLICA NAUTILUS SHELL AND CORAL JARDINIERES
TWO LARGE MINTON MAJOLICA NAUTILUS SHELL AND CORAL JARDINIERES

ONE WITH DATE CYPHER FOR 1868, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK AND SHAPE NO. 966

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TWO LARGE MINTON MAJOLICA NAUTILUS SHELL AND CORAL JARDINIERES
ONE WITH DATE CYPHER FOR 1868, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK AND SHAPE NO. 966
Supported on a cluster of red coral, the rocky base with seaweed
25 ½ in. (64.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's, London, 23 September 2010, Lot 178 (one).

Lot Essay

See Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, Suffolk, 1990, p. 79 for a period image of the A.B. Daniell's stand at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1776, including at least two examples of the present form. For an engraved illustration of this form in the Minton Majolica Catalogue 1880's, see Appendix 2, p. 331. Also see Joan Jones, Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 143.

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