A pair of Mintons brown-ground and coloured pâte-sur-pâte moon flask vases, late 19th century

each of flattened circular form with twin blue and gilt handles flanking a cylindrical neck, decorated in coloured pâte-sur-pâte with a diagonal spray of flowers and foliage falling across the front, shoulder and back, against a deep brown ground, the blue-ground neck with a gilt anthemion border, impressed Mintons and shape no. 1348

Height 26.7 cm., 10 ½ in.