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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN AND COBALT-BLUE GROUND OVAL QUEEN'S VASE AND COVER

DATE CYPHER FOR 1869, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, IMPRESSED MODEL NO. 626, M AND B, SIGNED WITH AN LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN AND COBALT-BLUE GROUND OVAL QUEEN'S VASE AND COVER
DATE CYPHER FOR 1869, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, IMPRESSED MODEL NO. 626, M AND B, SIGNED WITH AN LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS
AFTER THE SèVRES MODEL 'VASE ECRITOIRE UNIS', THE WAISTED COVER WITH BERRIED FINIAL, THE RIM MOULDED WITH A BEADED BAND, FINELY PAINTED AND HAND-TOOLED IN WHITE SLIP WITH THREE PUTTI SEATED AMONG VARIOUS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND EMPTY JUGS, BIRDS FLYING OVERHEAD, THE REVERSE WITH A WREATH MEDALLION ENCLOSING A PUTTO AND OWL AMID THE CLOUDS SURMOUNTED BY AN AMATORY TROPHY AND HELD BY PUTTI, FLANKED BY SCROLL HANDLES SUSPENDING LEAFY SWAGS, ON A CONFORMING SOCLE, THE OVAL KEY-PATTERN MOULDED BASE RAISED ON FOUR TOUPIE FEET
15½ IN. (39.4 CM.) HIGH (2)

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THE MINTON'S SHAPE BOOKS REFER TO THIS SHAPE AS THE QUEEN'S VASE AND IT IS LIKELY THAT THEY HAD ACCESS TO THE EXAMPLE THAT RESIDES IN THE BRITISH ROYAL COLLECTION. THE 1901 MINTON MODELLING BOOK INCLUDES A DRAWING BY JOHN HENK, THE CHIEF STAFF MODELLER, WITH THE NOTATION, 'DRAWING SCALED TO FIRED SIZE FROM MOULD OF SèVRES VASE AND STAND - TO SEND AWAY.' FOR PâTE-SUR-PâTE EXAMPLES OF THIS FORM PAINTED BY SOLON, SEE PAUL ATTERBURY AND MAUREEN BATKIN, THE DICTIONARY OF MINTON, SUFFOLK, 1990, P. 90; JOAN JONES, MINTON, THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF DESIGN & PRODUCTION, SHREWSBURY, 1993, P. 203; AND ELIZABETH ASLIN AND PAUL ATTERBURY, MINTON 1798-1910, LONDON, 1976, P.100, PL. 81. ALSO SEE MARCELLE BRUNET AND TAMARA PRéAUD, SèVRES DES ORIGINES A NOS JOURS, FRIBOURG, 1978, P. 188, FIG. 193, FOR A SèVRES EXAMPLE CIRCA 1772 IN THE BRITISH ROYAL COLLECTION (LAKING NO. 130).

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