A pair of Mintons pâte-sur-pâte moon flasks, circa 1885

each decorated in white with a dragon fly or moth nestling within a large spray of wildflowers extending to the reverse where two further winged insects are in flight, reserved on a dark chocolate-brown ground, the neck and footrims with a salmon-pink ground band reserving olive-green fan-shaped medallions, with gilt-edged rims, both with impressed MINTONS mark, model number 1348,