A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE DARK OLIVE GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES AND TWO COVERS

CIRCA 1880, GILT GLOBE MARKS, SIGNED L(OUIS) SOLON AND M(ARC) L(OUIS) S(OLON) MONOGRAM

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE DARK OLIVE GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES AND TWO COVERS
Circa 1880, gilt globe marks, signed L(ouis) Solon and M(arc) L(ouis) S(olon) monogram
In the Sèvres style, with tapering perforated chain handles, each painted and hand tooled in white slip, one with a Nymph teaching a putto how to fly and the other with a Nymph filling a putto's pannier with hearts beneath trailing gilt vine suspended from a trellis band, the reverse with musical trophies, on striated socle and square base
13 5/8in. (35cm.) high, the vases (2)

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See Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 1994, fig. 124 for a Sèvres example, "Vase 'C' de 1780" on which this vase shape is based. See also Elizabeth Aslin and Paul Atterbury, Minton 1798-1910, Exhibition Catalogue, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1976, fig. I3. for a Mintons pink-ground example of this 'Vase with Perforated Chain Handles'.

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