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Description
These exuberant majolica pedestals are the work of the English Minton factory, producers of some of the country's most-revered ceramic pieces. Each one is brightly coloured and decorated with festoons of fruit and flowers in a typically flamboyant Minton style.
Each pedestal is square in form, set on a square base and has a turquoise square plinth top.
Below the top and above the base there is a band of green acanthus leaf decoration. Around each side of each pedestal column there are coloured festoons shown on black ground, and at each corner there are spiral pilasters: on one, these are coloured yellow and white, and on the other white and purple.
The pedestals are a near pair: that is, one pedestal is taller than the other by three centimetres.
Provenance-+
Acquired in Stoke on Trent by an Aristocratic family around 1900 and passed through the family for over 100 years.
Literature-+
Similar examples illustrated in:
Majolica: British, Continental and American Wares, 1851-1915, by Victoria Bergesen
The Dictionary of Minton, revised edition Woodbridge, by M Batkin, p158.
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Details
Artist / Maker
Minton (British, founded 1793)
Country of Origin
Date of Manufacture
c. 1875
Period
Style
Materials
Colour
Dimensions
Height
99 cm / 39 inches
Width
41 cm / 16.1 inches
Depth
41.5 cm / 16.1 inches
Reference:
013084
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