Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Lot 279
A Minton majolica revolving oyster stand, dated 1863
11 June 2025, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£1,500 - £2,000
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Fergus Gambon
Director
A Minton majolica revolving oyster stand, dated 1863
With four graduated tiers of oyster shells with white interiors and naturalistic brown undersides, green seaweed between each shell, surmounted by a handle formed from three brightly coloured fish and an eel, the separate foot moulded with seaweed picked out in green against a brown ground, connected by a metal fitting enabling the stand to rotate, 26.5cm high, impressed MINTON and date cipher
Footnotes
A similar example was sold by Bonhams on 10 December 2003, lot 87 and another from the Collection of Duke of Sutherland, Dunrobin Castle, by Bonhams Edinburgh on 20 April 2021, lot 123. See also Marilyn G Karmason, Majolica (1989), p.45.