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Lot 542
Pair of Minton Majolica Sweetmeat Dishes
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Impressed with the year cypher for 1859, other impressed factory marks, modeled with putti carrying a shallow barrel, one draped with vines and the other with wheat, (representative of Summer and Autumn), molded on an oval shaped base of mottled glaze over a cobalt rim.

11 x 10.5 x 6 in.

After an original model by well known fine arts sculptor Albert Carrier-Belleuse (French 1824-1887).

One of the dishes with restoration to the left putto. Both with some rope restoration.

$2,000 - 4,000