Description:
Mintons Henry Deux Ware Wine Pitcher, England, c. 1875, designed and decorated by Charles Toft Sr., decorated with inlaid clays to a buff-colored ground, with scrolled dragon form handle, the spout with mask of a bearded man with ram's horns, all mounted atop four scrolled feet set atop a stepped circular base, signed C. Toft and Mintons, ht. 10 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
Slight nicks along an edge of one of the dragons' wings.
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