Oyster Server

Minton's pottery and porcelain factory

1866

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Creamware teapot of globular shape with molded cabbage leaf spout and leaf molded handle, hand-painted on one side in an elaborate scrolling cartouche the portrait of a classical woman in profile left, on the reverse a classical vase and ribbons that terminate on the cover on which the same design is repeated, all in puce enamel.
Oval black basalt medallion with relief scene of Sacrifice
Hercules Reclining, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Small, irregularly round bowl of coarse reddish brown stoneware covered with an opaque glaze that is bluish at the rim and drips down white then becomes beige as the glaze runs down the body of the bowl, the glaze is speckled and flecked and the bowl is decorated on both sides with bluish squiggle patterns highlighted in white, there are glaze free spots at the foot where the potter held the piece while dipping it into the glaze.