DATE CYPHER OF A SWAN FOR 1895-1900, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, RETAILER'S RIBBON MARK FOR CALDWELL & CO., PHILADELPHIA, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE MOTTLED CHOCOLATE-BROWN AND BLACK GROUND CABINET PLATE
DATE CYPHER OF A SWAN FOR 1895-1900, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, RETAILER'S RIBBON MARK FOR CALDWELL & CO., PHILADELPHIA, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a young maiden hiding behind a tree and setting a trap to fell an unexpecting putto, enclosed by a salmon-pink ribbon enriched with gilt ivy vine, within a dentil rim
9½ in. (24 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

See anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 26 October 2004, lot 112 for a similar cabinet plate also by Solon. Also see anon. sale, Christie's, London, 22 May 2003, lots 91-100 for similar examples including several which were decorated by Solon for the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873.

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