Minton Majolica Turquoise Sardine Box Server with Three Sardines, Dated 1876
Minton Majolica Sardine Server, the box with integral stand banded with green-glazed seaweed, the lid with three naturalistically glazed sardines on a bed of seaweed, the reverse with impressed marks: 'MINTONS,' with date cypher for 1876, and design number, '1383,' which corresponds to the entry, 'Sardine Box (M)' in the Minton Majolica Ornamental Shapes Books preserved in the Minton Archives and printed in Joan Jones.*
For thirty years we have been among the preeminent specialists in fine antique majolica.
* Joan Jones, "MINTON: The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production." Shrewsbury, England: Swan Hill Press, 1993, Appendix E, p. 352 Minton Ornamental Shapes (i.e., design numbers) listed in Appendix E, pp. 343-377.
Minton Majolica Sardine Server, the box with integral stand banded with green-glazed seaweed, the lid with three naturalistically glazed sardines on a bed of seaweed, the reverse with impressed marks: 'MINTONS,' with date cypher for 1876, and design number, '1383,' which corresponds to the entry, 'Sardine Box (M)' in the Minton Majolica Ornamental Shapes Books preserved in the Minton Archives and printed in Joan Jones.*
For thirty years we have been among the preeminent specialists in fine antique majolica.
* Joan Jones, "MINTON: The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production." Shrewsbury, England: Swan Hill Press, 1993, Appendix E, p. 352 Minton Ornamental Shapes (i.e., design numbers) listed in Appendix E, pp. 343-377.
Minton Majolica Sardine Server, the box with integral stand banded with green-glazed seaweed, the lid with three naturalistically glazed sardines on a bed of seaweed, the reverse with impressed marks: 'MINTONS,' with date cypher for 1876, and design number, '1383,' which corresponds to the entry, 'Sardine Box (M)' in the Minton Majolica Ornamental Shapes Books preserved in the Minton Archives and printed in Joan Jones.*
For thirty years we have been among the preeminent specialists in fine antique majolica.
* Joan Jones, "MINTON: The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production." Shrewsbury, England: Swan Hill Press, 1993, Appendix E, p. 352 Minton Ornamental Shapes (i.e., design numbers) listed in Appendix E, pp. 343-377.
