official auction photo 1, quarter turn side profile facing right on white background
“Minton Turquoise-Ground Figure of a Turtle, with a gilt-body, its shell colored in dark-blue, iron-red, brown and green enamels edged in gilding, supported on a rectangular base, faint impressed 'Minton', incised model number '6091'.”
official auction photo 2, full side profile facing right on white background
“Minton Turquoise-Ground Figure of a Turtle, with a gilt-body, its shell colored in dark-blue, iron-red, brown and green enamels edged in gilding, supported on a rectangular base, faint impressed 'Minton', incised model number '6091'.”
official auction photo 2, image of the lid (shell) taken off of the turtle effigy base
“Minton Turquoise-Ground Figure of a Turtle, with a gilt-body, its shell colored in dark-blue, iron-red, brown and green enamels edged in gilding, supported on a rectangular base, faint impressed 'Minton', incised model number '6091'.”
#TurtleTuesday 🐢:
Turquoise-Ground Figure of a #Turtle by Minton (England, UK), 1871
Porcelain, gilt, enamel
H 2 3/4 in. x W 4 in. x D 3 1/4 in.
www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2254016...