Sale 5150
London, South Kensington
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24 May 2007
Price realised
GBP 4,200
Estimate
A MINTON BOTANICAL RETICULATED PART DESSERT-SERVICE YEAR CYPHERS FOR 1874 AND 1875, IMPRESSED MARKS AND REGISTRATION MARKS FOR 1874, PAINTED PATTERN NO. 91876 Each piece finely painted, perhaps by William Mussill, with a variant exotic orchid, the gilt enriched border alternating pierced key-pattern panels, comprising: a high comport, four low comports, twenty plates and a base to a comport The plates 9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diam.
Provenance
By repute, Sir Moses Montefiore, Baronet
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William Mussill (1828-1906) is recorded as an artist specialising in botantical and ornithological compositions in the Barbotine style at Minton from 1870 until 1900.
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