Lot Essay
See Joan Jones, Mintons, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 210 for a single pâte-sur-pâte vase of this form and p. 197 for another with a similarly decorated neck
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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE AND CHOCOLATE TWO-HANDLED VASES
DATE CYPHERS FOR 1884, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1722, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Details
A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE AND CHOCOLATE TWO-HANDLED VASES
Date cyphers for 1884, gilt crowned globe and impressed uppercase marks, shape no. 1722, signed L.(ouis) Solon
Each cylindrical neck decorated in polychrome pâte-sur-pâte with opposing winged fantastic beasts, flanked by strap loop handles and rosette terminals, the shoulder enriched with faux flutes and key-pattern bands, the body finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a maiden swiftly brushing putti aside or with a maiden being swept off her feet by a host of putti, the reverse with five putti depicted from behind retreating through an open aperture or with five armed putti before a similar circular window, the lower section with stylized flowers and stiff-leaf tips
15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm.) high (2)
Date cyphers for 1884, gilt crowned globe and impressed uppercase marks, shape no. 1722, signed L.(ouis) Solon
Each cylindrical neck decorated in polychrome pâte-sur-pâte with opposing winged fantastic beasts, flanked by strap loop handles and rosette terminals, the shoulder enriched with faux flutes and key-pattern bands, the body finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a maiden swiftly brushing putti aside or with a maiden being swept off her feet by a host of putti, the reverse with five putti depicted from behind retreating through an open aperture or with five armed putti before a similar circular window, the lower section with stylized flowers and stiff-leaf tips
15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
The Daoud Collection, Atlantic City, 1975
To the present owner
To the present owner