Minton Majolica Hot-Chestnut Server with Spoon and Brass Warmer
Shape no. 594, date cypher for 1858
Applied with an open chestnut, the leaves forming a half cover, the border molded with stylized sprays of leaves on a brown-ground, below a shaped rim, the turquoise interior fitted with a pierced brass insert, the matching spoon as strawberry vine, the conjoined stems held by a pink ribbon, impressed uppercase mark and M, shape no., the spoon with black painted 3 (3). Diameter of server 10 inches; length of spoon 8 inches.

The pierced brass plate allowed the hot water below to warm the chestnuts. Additional variations of this model were made at St. Honoré and Luneville.

Literature:
KL001509 (part) Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 50. Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. 73, fig. 12.45.

Exhibited:
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-662; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.69; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.


C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection

presents well; clever professional restoration to all four leaves on the chestnut pod and to the leaves at the right of the arched enclosure and to the rim and bowl to the right of the handle; spoon restored mid-handle and at the terminal, with touched up leaf tips on the bowl; examined under blacklight
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