Lot Essay
The plumed mark would indicate that the present example was made for and exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1878.
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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE MAUVE-GROUND TWO-HANDLED EXHIBITION VASE, 'CAPTIVITY'
DATED 1878, GILT SPECIAL PARIS EXHIBITION AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1986, SIGNED AND DATED L. SOLON. 1878
Details
A MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE MAUVE-GROUND TWO-HANDLED EXHIBITION VASE, 'CAPTIVITY'
Dated 1878, gilt special Paris Exhibition and impressed uppercase marks, shape no. 1986, signed and dated L. Solon. 1878
Of shield shape with tall neck and cup-shaped mouth moulded with anthemion and acanthus enriched in gilt, flanked by open upright scrolling bracket handles terminating anthemion, painted and hand tooled in white slip with a voluptuous figure of Dusk being bound by putti, the reverse with a mischievious putto chaining himself to a star, the foot with a band of honeysuckle, on a square black base
18¾in. (47.5cm.) high
Dated 1878, gilt special Paris Exhibition and impressed uppercase marks, shape no. 1986, signed and dated L. Solon. 1878
Of shield shape with tall neck and cup-shaped mouth moulded with anthemion and acanthus enriched in gilt, flanked by open upright scrolling bracket handles terminating anthemion, painted and hand tooled in white slip with a voluptuous figure of Dusk being bound by putti, the reverse with a mischievious putto chaining himself to a star, the foot with a band of honeysuckle, on a square black base
18¾in. (47.5cm.) high