Lot Essay
See Jone Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 197 for an example of this form decorated by Solon and identified as shape no. 1986.
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE TWO-HANDLED VASE
CIRCA 1875, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARKS, INCISED 11, SIGNED L. SOLON
Details
A MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE TWO-HANDLED VASE
Circa 1875, impressed uppercase and gilt crowned globe marks, incised 11, signed L. Solon
Finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a classical toy vendor offering miniature putti from a table, the polychrome pâte-sur-pâte ground panelled as a Pompeiian interior, the reverse with a Bacchic trophy
15 7/8in. (40.2cm.) high
Circa 1875, impressed uppercase and gilt crowned globe marks, incised 11, signed L. Solon
Finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a classical toy vendor offering miniature putti from a table, the polychrome pâte-sur-pâte ground panelled as a Pompeiian interior, the reverse with a Bacchic trophy
15 7/8in. (40.2cm.) high
