A PAIR OF MINTON TURQUOISE-GROUND VASES CIRCA 1860-70

after an 18th-century Sèvres model, each painted by J. (?) A. Simpson, signed, in aesthetic style with butterflies, other winged insects and leafy plants, printed crowned Minton and ermine marks in puce.

In generally good condition.
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The painting on these vases is most likely by John Simpson (active second-half of 19th century), who is referred by Joan Jones in Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, p. 106, as having exhibited vases "painted with flies and flowers" at the Vienna Exhibiton of 1873.