DATE CYPHER FOR 1884, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, IMPRESSED MODEL NO. 1722 AND VARIOUS CYPHERS, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE BLACK AND CHOCOLATE VASES
DATE CYPHER FOR 1884, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, IMPRESSED MODEL NO. 1722 AND VARIOUS CYPHERS, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
EACH OF BALUSTER FORM FLANKED BY GILT ENRICHED STRAP LOOP-HANDLES WITH ROSETTE TERMINALS, FINELY PAINTED AND HAND-TOOLED IN WHITE SLIP WITH AN AMOROUS COUPLE ATTENDING A NEWBORN PUTTO IN A BASKET, FLANKED BY AN ARCADE SUSPENDING FLOWER BASKETS OF EMERGING PUTTI, THE NECK AND FOOT ENRICHED IN POLYCHROME PâTE-SUR-PâTE WITH STYLIZED LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY AND OTHER FLOWERS
15¾ IN. (40 CM.) HIGH (2)

Provenance

ESTATE OF WILFRED SWALL, SOTHEBY PARKE BERNET INC., NEW YORK, 20-23 APRIL, 1983, LOT 464

Lot Essay

SEE JOAN JONES, MINTON, THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION, SHREWSBURY, 1993, PP. 195, 197 AND 210 FOR OTHER EXAMPLES OF THIS FORM. ALSO COMPARE ANON. SALE, CHRISTIE'S, NEW YORK 20-21 APRIL 2005, LOT 138 AND ANON. SALE, CHRISTIE'S, NEW YORK, 20 APRIL 2006.

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