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8 June 2005, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,720 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Minton Majolica group of the Vintagers
dated 1860
modelled by Hugues Protât, the two youthful peasants bedecked with trailing vines and carrying between them two metal poles which support a pierced grape basket formed of alternate green and yellow trellis, the rustic base mottled in green and brown edged with branches and stalks in lighter brown, 47cm long, the figures 41cm high, impressed ermine mark and year code for 1860 (one head restuck, some losses to fingers, very minor damage to vine stalks, the separate basket broken and restuck)
modelled by Hugues Protât, the two youthful peasants bedecked with trailing vines and carrying between them two metal poles which support a pierced grape basket formed of alternate green and yellow trellis, the rustic base mottled in green and brown edged with branches and stalks in lighter brown, 47cm long, the figures 41cm high, impressed ermine mark and year code for 1860 (one head restuck, some losses to fingers, very minor damage to vine stalks, the separate basket broken and restuck)
Footnotes
By family tradition this group was purchased by the Great Uncle of the present owner at the 1862 London Universal Exhibition. A silver medal commemorating this exhibition has always been kept with this group in the family and is included with this lot. A similar example is illustrated by Atterbury and Batkin, Dictionary of Minton, p. 97
