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Mintons Majolica English. Signed P. Comolera, Cypher mark for…
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Melbourne
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1-Oct-2007
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Mintons Majolica English. Signed P. Comolera, Cypher mark for 1880 a rare figural earthenware umbrella stand, richly modelled as a heron standing amongst a cluster of bull rushes clutching a pike in its beak. Stamped Mintons, 1917, and triangular cypher with a vertical dash, 99 cm high. Note: a heron is represented in the oil on canvas the scene of the Wreck of the 'Loch Ard', painted by Frederik Horatio Bruford in 1878. The heron in Bruford's painting shows the distinctive green bull rushes and curvature to the neck similar to the figure offered for sale. Significantly, the wreck of the Loch Ard yielded the famous Mintons model of a peacock, which was intended for the 1880 Melbourne international Exhibition and which now resides in the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum in Warrnambool. Reference: J.M MacKenzie, the peacock from the sea, Victoria
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Ceramics: Minton