Minton Majolica Sailor Tobacco Jar and Cover
Shape no. 716, date cypher possibly for 1872
Modeled as a young, bearded sailor seated on a coiled rope spool, holding a pipe in his left hand and swigging from a tankard in his right, turquoise interior, impressed uppercase mark and two small cyphers, shape no. and black painted 38. Height 9 1/2 inches.

Literature:
KL001553 Susan Weber et al., Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, cat. 92, fig. 5.56.

Exhibited:
'Majolica Mania', Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24 September 2021-2 January 2022, no. MJ-692; Walters Art Museum, 27 February 2022-7 August 2022, no. MAJ.88; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2022-29 January 2023.

Reference:
Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, p. 223, fig. 3, for the drawing from the Minton shape book.


C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection

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No inner compression lid
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