A Minton teapot and cover
A Minton teapot and cover

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A Minton teapot and cover
designed by H. H. Crealock, modelled as a vulture attacking a serpent, painted in coloured glazes, the raptor with pink neck and brown plummage with black wing tips, the green serpent mottled with dark-green spots, on rocky-moulded base, impressed marks and date code for 1874 -- 22cm. high
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Lot Essay

Cf. Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton (1990) p. 277, pl. 53

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