Lot Essay
Cf. Joan Jones, Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, London, 1993, pp. 187-210, colour plate opposite p. 204
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A MINTON OLIVE-BROWN GROUND PÂTE-SUR PÂTE LARGE VASE
DESIGNED BY LOUIS SOLON, SIGNED AND DATED 1884, GOLD PRINTED MARKS, IMPRESSED DATE MARK FOR 1883, SHAPE 2148 OR 2151, RETAILED THROUGH T. GOODE & CO., LONDON
Of oviform, the bracket handles terminating in Medusa masks centering the Minton cipher, the front depicting huntresses bringing down amorini from the sky with their arrows, the back amorini holding arrows and flying around a classically inspired May pole, the neck, shoulder and foot with ferns and flowerheads --25 5/8in. (65cm.) high
DESIGNED BY LOUIS SOLON, SIGNED AND DATED 1884, GOLD PRINTED MARKS, IMPRESSED DATE MARK FOR 1883, SHAPE 2148 OR 2151, RETAILED THROUGH T. GOODE & CO., LONDON
Of oviform, the bracket handles terminating in Medusa masks centering the Minton cipher, the front depicting huntresses bringing down amorini from the sky with their arrows, the back amorini holding arrows and flying around a classically inspired May pole, the neck, shoulder and foot with ferns and flowerheads --25 5/8in. (65cm.) high