Lot Essay
This subject, Jeu de dames, is recorded as being produced by Solon on shape no. 3180 in 1899. See J. Jones, Mintons, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, appendix C, p. 399.
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CIRCA 1899, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, INDISTINCT CYPHER, GILT 1.8.98 K, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASE, 'JEU DE DAMES'
CIRCA 1899, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, INDISTINCT CYPHER, GILT 1.8.98 K, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with Cupid watching as two women play checkers to win Love, the reverse with a chessboard, the chessmen as putti
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) high
CIRCA 1899, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, INDISTINCT CYPHER, GILT 1.8.98 K, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with Cupid watching as two women play checkers to win Love, the reverse with a chessboard, the chessmen as putti
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) high