Minton RARE majolica deviled egg

server in the form of a yellow wicker basket with chickens protruding from base and cover, 5"h, no. 2048; Betsy & Rick Porter Collection

vase with woodpecker perched on oak tree with butterfly, acorn, and beetle, 7", shape no 1558. Sue & Harry Thurmon Collection

modeled as a bird perched on vine handle of leaf with blossoms, leaves form candle holder, shape no. 1567, 10"l, 4 1/2"h, professional rim chip repair; Ann & Robert Fromer Collection

Minton RARE Majolica fish oyster plate, 6 wells, 11 1/4"

vase designed by Christopher Dresser, eggplant colored with gold accent, 8", shape no. 1738

Boar's Head tureen with rare matching fitted tray, no. 2141, 22"l, 15"w, 11 1/2"h. This is the rarest of all Minton majolica game tureens, very few are known to exist; an example is in the MAAS Powerh

form of a vulture attacking a snake, the vulture with pink neck, brown feathers with black wing tips on rock mound base, the rarest of Minton's figural majolica teapots, from the Marilyn Karmason Coll

23" h, modeled with a mermaid handle, her tail wrapped around a horned bacchus mask, with laurel leaf swags running along both sides and a putto below the spout, with panels in relief to either side,

(2) rare Minton majolica shell-form Jardinieres, c. 1870, polychrome painted and tin glazed cast pottery, modeled as a single nautilus shell raised on coral branches, resting on a rock-form pedestal,

shape no.1146, designed in two tiers, the top a fluted dish supported by three stags heads draped with pine boughs and cones about a knopped stem and socle centre section, the below tier divided six-p

and cover, modeled as a fantastic fish with brown spout emerging from it's mouth supported on green waves and with brown seaweed handle with snail, the cover with a spikey dorsal fin, 7"h, 9"l; this t

tureen modeled as an oval tree truck with fox on each end chasing ducks on each side with mushroom finial; Karmason-Stacke p49; 16"w, 7 1/2"h, professional repairs to fox ears. Sue & Harry Thurmon Col

the form of a yellow lychee with green stem handle and spout with leaf finial, 7"l, 5"h; Ann & Robert Fromer Collection

and Cover c.1875, 5 1/2", shape no. 1325, modeled as an upright pinecone, the upper quarter surmounted by a bird forming the lid, all on a shaped edge circular tray with a branch and leaves forming th

rooster teapot with rare yellow oval body with decorated circular shield, the tail formed as a mischievous monkey holding reins and driving a rooster to the front forming the spout, finial formed as a

& Cover c.1865. Modeled as an upright pine cone with an attached branch forming the pen holder, the cover surmounted by a bird forming the handle, all upon a green leaf tray, 6"h. Donna & David Reis C

c.1875, modeled as a large green and purple mottled circular tray, the border formed as twelve oyster serving compartments, around a radiating green central medallion with a stylised flower head centr

water lily and cattail platter, shape no. 827, 24", professional rim repair

Compotes c.1860, After a design by John Thomas Modeled as a merman and a mermaid supported by a turtle and holding a shell bowl above their heads, 12½". ( Only one of two known pairs) The design of t

leaf plate, 9 1/2"

oyster plate, 9"

lily pitchers with pink background, 5 1/2", 7", 8", 9" pitchers

mouse hovering over blue tit whose foot is tied to vase, 6 3/4"; Ann & Robert Fromer Collection

card holder designed by Paul Comolera c.1875, only two known example. Modeled as a brightly glazed Punchinello leaning over a post all upon a brown glazed rocky ground, 11". The fashion for decorative