Minton Majolica 'Bacchus' vase cobalt blue-ground, English, dated 1856, of urn-shaped form, molded and applied with three satyr masks, and festoons of pendant fruit, suspending rope-twist swags above gadrooned lower section, on pedestal stem and plinth base. Impressed date cypher for 1856 and pattern number '640,' which corresponds to 'Baroque Vase' in the Minton Majolica Shape Numbers preserved in the Minton Archives, Stoke-on-Trent, England, and reprinted in V. Bergesen.*

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* Victoria Bergesen, "MAJOLICA: British, Continental and American Wares, 1851-1915." London: Barrie & Jenkins Publishers, 1989, pp. 180-182. Joan Jones, "MINTON: The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production." Shrewsbury, England: Swan Hill Press, 1993, Appendix E, p. 349. Minton Ornamental Shapes (i.e., pattern numbers) listed pp. 343-377 (partial).