$711
Minton Majolica Game Pie Dish, England, date cipher for 1868, the cover with handle molded as a hound atop hunting paraphernalia, the body with a basketweave ground overlaid with leafy branches and inset with a cartouches depicting a hare and a pheasant, with twig-form handles and four paw feet, impressed factory and cipher marks, lg. 14 in. Literature: Illustrated in Majolica: A Complete History and Illustrated Survey , by Joan Stacke and Marilyn Karmason, p. 49; and Minton 'Majolica,' by Victoria Cecil, p. 62. Cover has been broken in several places and professionally restored.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-07-14