Lot 213
213
A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE CHOCOLATE TWO-HANDLED PILGRIM BOTTLES
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE CHOCOLATE TWO-HANDLED PILGRIM BOTTLES

CIRCA 1875, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1348, SIGNED L. SOLON

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE CHOCOLATE TWO-HANDLED PILGRIM BOTTLES
Circa 1875, gilt crowned globe and impressed uppercase marks, shape no. 1348, signed L. Solon
Each finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a nymph kneeling to either pull putti from a pond or be pulled into a pond by them, the neck and shoulder decorated in the Aesthetic taste in the manner of Christopher Dresser with pale-olive straps of stemmed daisies viewed from the underside and reserved on gold
10½in. (26.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Year of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 210 for an illustration of this form; also see anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 10 October 2001, lot 193 for a pair of pilgrim flasks decorated by Solon.

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