Rare Minton Majolica "Mushroom and Coconut"™ Teapot

and Cover c.1875. Modelled as a yellow coconut, with green leaf forming the spout, branch forming the handle and feet, the cover formed as a mushroom, 9"w, 5½"h Curated and catalogued by Nicolaus B

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

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

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

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

'Mushroom' tureen c.1875, modeled as an oval fern and ivy tree trunk with leafy green ground, fixed under tray, with a mischievous fox at either end watching two unsuspecting mallard ducks, the lid mo

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

form teapot with mushroom finial and twig handle, cobalt floral creamer with shell feet and vine/snail handle, turquoise gourd form sugar with snail finial all atop a large leaf and blossom tray, 14";

figural teapot, 5 1/2"h

figural teapot, 9"w, 6"h

figural teapot, 8 1/2"l, professional repair to finial and spout

figural teapot, professional repair to spout, lid finial, and handle, 8 1/2"l

figural teapot, professional repair to spout, 8 1/2"l

mushroom finial, 7"l. Sue & Harry Thurmon Collection

monkey clasping a coconut, large size, 9 1/2"l. Sue & Harry Thurmon Collection

monkey clasping coconut, small size, 8 1/2"l

Minton majolica monkey teapot and cover, Late 19th c., polychrome enameled porcelain, modeled as a monkey embracing a coconut, with bamboo spout and tail handle, marks to underside and model no. 1844,

* A Mintons Majolica Zoomorphic Teapot 1874 the body and handle in the form on a monkey grasping a coconut with a bamboo-form spout, with impressed Mintons mark to the underside. Height 7 x width 9 3/

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

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

Desirable and Iconic Minton Majolica ‘Mushroom’ tureen c.1875, modeled as an oval fern and ivy tree trunk with leafy green ground, fixed under tray, with a mischievous fox at either end watching t

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