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A MINTONS EARTHENWARE BLUE AND WHITE FOOTED JARDINIERE AND A PERFORATED STAND
Lot 139

A MINTONS EARTHENWARE BLUE AND WHITE FOOTED JARDINIERE AND A PERFORATED STAND

THE PEDESTAL WITH DATE CYPHER FOR 1885, THE JARDINIERE OF SIMILAR DATE, IMPRESSED SHAPE NOS. 1630 AND 451, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS

Closed18 April 2013

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A MINTONS EARTHENWARE BLUE AND WHITE FOOTED JARDINIERE AND A PERFORATED STAND
THE PEDESTAL WITH DATE CYPHER FOR 1885, THE JARDINIERE OF SIMILAR DATE, IMPRESSED SHAPE NOS. 1630 AND 451, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS
In the Chinese taste, enriched with blue and white floral designs, the jardinière flanked by ring handles and supported by four mask monopodia feet, the pedestal of hexagonal form
19¾ in. (50 cm.) high, the jardiniére; 33½ in. (85 cm.) high, the pedestal (2)

Specialist note

Examples of these forms were exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876. Blue and white examples are comparatively rare. For a pair of jardinières decorated in this floral pattern, see J. Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 108.