A MINTON MAJOLICA CIRCULAR PIGEON-PIE TUREEN AND COVER moulded to simulate yellow wicker-work and with a turquoise-glazed interior, the tureen supported on the tails of three fan-tailed pigeons with shaded cream, grey and lilac plumage and coloured heads, the birds perched on oak-branches with leafy interlaced twigs providing further support for the tureen, the finial modelled as a cream pigeon nestling on a bed of leaves (three cracks to cover and two to tureen, chip to inside flange of cover, chip to inside rim of one oakleaf at base), circa 1864 | Christie's

拍品 373

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A MINTON MAJOLICA CIRCULAR PIGEON-PIE TUREEN AND COVER moulded to simulate yellow wicker-work and with a turquoise-glazed interior, the tureen supported on the tails of three fan-tailed pigeons with shaded cream, grey and lilac plumage and coloured heads, the birds perched on oak-branches with leafy interlaced twigs providing further support for the tureen, the finial modelled as a cream pigeon nestling on a bed of leaves (three cracks to cover and two to tureen, chip to inside flange of cover, chip to inside rim of one oakleaf at base), circa 1864

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A MINTON MAJOLICA CIRCULAR PIGEON-PIE TUREEN AND COVER moulded to simulate yellow wicker-work and with a turquoise-glazed interior, the tureen supported on the tails of three fan-tailed pigeons with shaded cream, grey and lilac plumage and coloured heads, the birds perched on oak-branches with leafy interlaced twigs providing further support for the tureen, the finial modelled as a cream pigeon nestling on a bed of leaves (three cracks to cover and two to tureen, chip to inside flange of cover, chip to inside rim of one oakleaf at base), circa 1864
10¾in. (27.5cm.) high

拍品专文

Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke op. cit., ps.10 and 47, and also Victoria Cecil, op. cit., p. 26, catalogue no. 43