A PAIR OF MINTONS POLYCHROME PTE-SUR-PTE DEEP TEAL BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES

LATE 19TH CENTURY, SHAPE NO. 1722, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A PAIR OF MINTONS POLYCHROME PTE-SUR-PTE DEEP TEAL BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES
Late 19th century, shape no. 1722, signed L.(ouis) Solon
With upright loop handles terminating in flowerheads, the neck with a band of polychrome stylized flowers and foliage above a band of polychrome lappets joined by ribbon-tied arrows at the shoulder, the body decorated in white slip, one with a nymph bearing a banner and a shield descending a staircase littered with putti, the reverse with a putto enthroned; the other a nymph holding a bow and ascending a staircase attended by putti, the reverse with a putto seated in rockwork beneath a brazier, the foot with polychrome stylized foliage
15in. (40cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Estate of Wilfred Swall, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 20-23 April 1983, lot 465

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, England, 1993, p. 187-214, for examples of this form decorated in polychrome pte-sur-pte and an extensive discussion on Louis Solon. See also p. 95 for an example of this form decorated by Christopher Dresser.

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