A fine assembled pair of Minton porcelain pate-sur-pate Aesop s fables pilgrim flasks, last quarter 19th century, depicting the tortoise and hare, and the cow and frog, TR artist s cipher attributed to Thomas H. Rice, gold printed crowned globe mark, impressed MINTONS , shape 1819, indistinct date cypher for either 1872 or 1882, one with original paper label, 10.25"h. Provenance: Property of a prominent Hillsborough, CA estate.