DATE CYPHER FOR 1890, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, AND SHAPE NO. 1722, SIGNED WITH AN LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN TWO-HANDLED VASE
DATE CYPHER FOR 1890, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, AND SHAPE NO. 1722, SIGNED WITH AN LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS
Of classic form, the cylindrical neck decorated in polychrome pâte-sur-pâte with anthemion flanked by gilt enriched loop handles, the body finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a scantily draped maiden seated in a flowering tree, holding a torchere, the flanking putti with musical instruments, the obverse similarly composed the central maiden seated among oak branches holding a sheaf of wheat and a scythe, the circular foot molded and enriched with a Vitruvian scroll
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high

Provenance

Thomas Goode & Co. Ltd., London.

Literature

J. Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, pp. 194-195.
P. Atterbury and M. Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, Suffolk, 1990, p. 253, (in the biographical listing the present vase is illustrated as the definitive work for Lawrence Birks).

Exhibited

London, Victoria & Albert Museum and Thomas Goode & Co. Ltd, 1976, E. Aslin and P. Atterbury, Mintons 1798-1910, pp. 104 and 106, pl. 86, cat. TG40.

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Lot Essay

Lawrence Birks is recorded at Mintons producing masterworks in pâte-sur-pâte from 1872-1895 and is thought to complete the trio of assistants as stipulated in Solon's contract of 1871. Circa 1895, he left the firm to set up an independent workshop and is recorded producing pâte-sur-pâte works until 1917.

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