Mintons Majolica Aesthetic Movement Brown and Green

Mintons Majolica Aesthetic Movement Brown and Green Ground Oval Cheese Dish and Cover on Integral Stand
Date cypher for 1875
Impressed uppercase mark, black painted 4 to base and cover, recorded as shape 620 by V.B., the design often attributed to Christopher Dresser
Modeled as a round of cheese being devoured by four mice, the knop as a mouse nibbling, the surface molded with scattered stalks of wheat, the integral emerald-green stand with Chinoiserie floral reserves. Width of stand 10 inches.

Literature:
Darra Goldstein, "Cheese under Cover," Cured, Fall, 2016.

Reference:
Victoria Cecil, Minton 'Majolica,' Jeremy Cooper Ltd., Exhibition 7-26 June 1982, Galen Place, London, p. 61, cat. no. 49. Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, (2nd Edition 2002), p. 51. Victoria Bergesen, Majolica, p. 180.

C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
Condition Report: Professional restoration to the finial mouse ears and to one side of the stand rim; there is a small oval patch of over painting beside one wheat grass frond on the cover; some crazing to the interior with some deep lines; blacklit

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