A Minton Majolica Monkey and Cockerel Teapot and Cover, Circa 1870
Length: 8 ½ ins. (21.5 cms.) Height: 5 ¾ ins. (14.6 cms.)
Item No. 1999
A Minton Majolica Monkey and Cockerel Teapot and Cover, decorated cobalt blue with polychrome embossed roundels on the sides of the ovoid body raised on three green coloured feet. A...
A Minton Majolica Monkey and Cockerel Teapot and Cover, decorated cobalt blue with polychrome embossed roundels on the sides of the ovoid body raised on three green coloured feet. A green decorated monkey forms the handle. The grinning monkey leans back, holding brown reigns tied around the neck of the open beaked cockerel spout. A slithering snail forms the finial of the ribbed cover.
Literature
See a similar example in Joan Jones, Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production (1993), p. 152.Join our mailing list
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