A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE AND IVORY GROUND TWO-HANDLED BOTTLE FLASK ON FIXED PIERCED STAND

GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, MODEL NO. 2421, RETAILER'S MARK FOR GILMAN COLLAMORE & CO., NEW YORK, LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS, DATE CYPHER FOR 1884

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE AND IVORY GROUND TWO-HANDLED BOTTLE FLASK ON FIXED PIERCED STAND
GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, MODEL NO. 2421, RETAILER'S MARK FOR GILMAN COLLAMORE & CO., NEW YORK, LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS, DATE CYPHER FOR 1884
Of flattened circular form, the flaring neck flanked by gilt scroll lug handles, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a scantily clad nymph gathering flowers attended by three putti and a bird in flight, within a circular gilt key-pattern band and ivy, the ground enriched with oeil-de-perdrix, the reverse with a flower-filled urn within a patterned gilt band and radiant half-flowerheads, on a short oval foot and reticulated chinoiserie faux ormolu base
15½ in. (39.3 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Art and Industry, Selected Items from the Royal Crown Derby and Minton Museum, Sotheby's, London, 8 November 1999, lot 82 for an example of this form painted by James Edwin Dean. Also see, anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 1 July 1999, lot 57 for a similar smaller pâte-sur-pâte example; and Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, Suffolk, 1990, p. 94 as a superb example of silvering and gilding.

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