Lot Details
Lot 1003
Minton Majolica Crab Meat Server and Cover
Date cypher for 1859
Unmarked, recorded as shape no. 801, impressed cyphers O
The cover naturalistically modeled as a large crab resting on a bed of seaweed, set on a turquoise well surrounded by twelve alternate cobalt and brown ogival shaped wells, the interior turquoise. Width overall 15 3/4 inches.
Literature:
Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 48.
Exhibited:
English Majolica, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 19 January - 11 April 1982.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
Additional Notes & Condition Report
Server: professional restoration to the outer rim edge of one the blue-colored pockets; there are a few minor scattered chips to the rim; there are some scattered small bubbles to the surface of the glaze; it presents really well; blacklighted
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