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A Minton majolica large ewer and stand, dated
1871, from a design by Hughes Protat, the
campaniform ewer with a blue-speckled
brown body surmounted on the ochre and
green gadrooned blue shoulder by a putto
astride a blue dolphin beneath the spout and
a merchild supporting the blue and brown
double-snake handle on the reverse, the
blue lower body molded with four (4) green
snake-edged grotesque masks above a
waisted circular foot (chips around the ankle)
encircled with a snake-entwined reclining
Cupid and companion, and the stand with a
green and ochre-edged blue raised center
(small chip) encircled by four molded
merchildren alternating with four ochre-
edged oval recesses decorated with an
ochre-streaked green glaze repeated on the
underside and on the interior of the ewer's
spout, the stand rim with a green snake-
entwined ochre edge, both impressed
Minton, the date cipher for 1871, shape
number 787 and letter U
Height of basin: 21-5/8 inches
Diameter: 18-3/4 inches
Gross height: 24 inches
Provenance:
Sotheby's, New York, sale, April 24, 1992,
sale no. 6288, lot 237/2
Estimated value: $4,000.00 - $6,000.00
