Lot Essay
See Joan Jones, op. cit., p. 198 for a pair of pte-sur-pte vases of the same form and footnote for the previous lot.
CIRCA 1900, CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED MARKS, SHAPE NO. NP1003, GILT K AND SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Details
A PAIR OF MINTONS POLYCHROME PTE-SUR-PTE DEEP TEAL-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED BALUSTER VASES
Circa 1900, crowned globe and impressed marks, shape no. NP1003, gilt K and signed L.(ouis) Solon
With knotted and beaded loop handles, the elongated neck with flared mouth decorated in polychrome pte-sur-pte with anthemion and pendant bellflowers, one decorated in white slip with a nymph showering a putto with water from a fountain, the reverse with putti teathered to a scaffold before a flaming brazier; the other with a nymph roasting a putto at a brazier, the reverse with putti in a frozen fountain, the lower section gilt with a band of anthemion, on conforming domed socle and square base
22in. (55.9cm.) high (2)
Circa 1900, crowned globe and impressed marks, shape no. NP1003, gilt K and signed L.(ouis) Solon
With knotted and beaded loop handles, the elongated neck with flared mouth decorated in polychrome pte-sur-pte with anthemion and pendant bellflowers, one decorated in white slip with a nymph showering a putto with water from a fountain, the reverse with putti teathered to a scaffold before a flaming brazier; the other with a nymph roasting a putto at a brazier, the reverse with putti in a frozen fountain, the lower section gilt with a band of anthemion, on conforming domed socle and square base
22in. (55.9cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Estate of Wilfred Swall, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 20-23 April 1983, lot 468