A Minton majolica teapot and cover Year cypher for 1876, impressed mark, shape 622 Modelled as a flat iron, each side moulded with a frieze of mice and flowerheads on a cobalt-blue ground between brown-glaze sections, the cable handle moulded with a white cat, the blue ground cover with a finial formed as a seated mouse holding a root (the handle broken with associated chips with a riveted repair, small chips to spout, chips to mouse ears, nose and the tip of the root vegetable) 7¾in. (19.5cm.) high See the example with a similar reversed colour scheme sold at Christie's South Kensington, 20th June 2001, lot 36.
A Minton majolica teapot and cover Year cypher for 1876, impressed mark, shape 622 Modelled as a flat iron, each side moulded with a frieze of mice and flowerheads on a cobalt-blue ground between brown-glaze sections, the cable handle moulded with a white cat, the blue ground cover with a finial formed as a seated mouse holding a root (the handle broken with associated chips with a riveted repair, small chips to spout, chips to mouse ears, nose and the tip of the root vegetable) 7¾in. (19.5cm.) high See the example with a similar reversed colour scheme sold at Christie's South Kensington, 20th June 2001, lot 36.
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