$4,000
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000
English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Auction: October 7, 2014 11:00:00 AM EDT
Modeled as a pale blue fish, his spiky fin surmounting the cover, with a spout issuing from his mouth and seaweed handle rising from a bed of waves at the base, the base with raised registration lozenge and impressed Mintons and with date cypher for 1878.
H: 7, W: 9 1/2, D: 3 1/2 in.Provenance: Property from the collection of Debra and I. Michael Coslov, Haverford, PA.
LITERATURE: Marilyn G. Karmason, Joan B. Stacke. Majolica: A Complete History and Illustrated Survey. Henry N. Abrams, New York, 1989, (illustrated on frontispiece).