A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN PILGRIM BOTTLE

CIRCA 1880, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARK, SHAPE NO. 1819, COLLECTOR'S PAPER LABEL, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN PILGRIM BOTTLE
CIRCA 1880, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARK, SHAPE NO. 1819, COLLECTOR'S PAPER LABEL, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Of flask form with notched loop handles, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with amorous putti embracing before a crescent moon surrounded by gilt stars, the reverse with an arabesque device of a basket of fruit above scroll work, the neck and foot enriched with polychrome pâte-sur-pâte stylized foliage
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high

Provenance

H.(erbert) Eccles Collection

Lot Essay

Herbert Eccles is cited as a collector of Worcester, Swansea and Nantgarw, chiefly acquired from the Drane Collection, now located in The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. See William Bowyer Honey, European Ceramic Art, London 1952, p. 586, no 194.

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