Lot Details
Lot 1096
Minton Majolica Renaissance Style Miniature 'Askos' Wine Jug
Date cypher for 1871
Partial impressed uppercase mark, other indistinct cyphers and black painted A
After the Greco-Roman form, with lion handle, height 2 7/8 inches, width 4 inches; Together with a Minton Majolica Cobalt-Blue Ground Stag's Head Ring Stand Tazza. Date cypher for 1867, impressed uppercase mark, shape no. 973, after the Antique, in the form of a 4th Century Greek rhyton, the circular platform glazed in turquoise above a brown fluted horn and naturalistic stag head terminal, the oval cobalt-blue base edge with yellow gadroons, height 4 3/8 inches, length 6 inches.
Reference: (Stag's Head Ring Stand Tazza):
Victoria Cecil, Minton 'Majolica', Jeremy Cooper Ltd., Exhibition 7-26 June 1982, Galen Place, London, p. 60, cat. no. 45. Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica, p. 54, fig. 89.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
Additional Notes & Condition Report
Stag's Head Ring Stand Tazza: short hairline crack, one antler prong possibly restored.
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