A MINTON 'LIMOGES ENAMEL' CENTRE-PIECE in the Renaissance style, formed as a tapering vase with a pierced rim, raised on a knopped and domed stem, supported on a circular tray raised on a similar larger stem and base, the black ground painted in white and en grisaille enriched in gilding, simulating enamel, the vase with Diana and Perseus, each within a strapwork cartouche flanked by masks, the knops with masks and portrait medallions of emperors and empresses within borders of masks, putti and Renaissance scrollwork (restoration to neck of vase, minute chip to footrim), impressed and painted script mark HS & M mongram, impressed date code for 1866

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A MINTON 'LIMOGES ENAMEL' CENTRE-PIECE in the Renaissance style, formed as a tapering vase with a pierced rim, raised on a knopped and domed stem, supported on a circular tray raised on a similar larger stem and base, the black ground painted in white and en grisaille enriched in gilding, simulating enamel, the vase with Diana and Perseus, each within a strapwork cartouche flanked by masks, the knops with masks and portrait medallions of emperors and empresses within borders of masks, putti and Renaissance scrollwork (restoration to neck of vase, minute chip to footrim), impressed and painted script mark HS & M mongram, impressed date code for 1866
18½in. (47cm.) high

Lot Essay

The Minton factory, under the direction of Léon Arnoux and inspired by the vogue for Historicism, produced several different types of pottery, directly inspired by the arts of the Renaissance. These included Charles Toft's Henri Deux wares, inspired by St. Porchaire originals, Hamlet Bourne's copies of Palissy wares in majolica, and also the wares painted in the style of Limoges enamel. Stephen Lawton, Thomas Kirkby and Benjamin Lockett specialised in this style of painting. See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, p. 186.

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