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.