A MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE BROWN AND IVORY GROUND RETICULATED CENTERPIECE
A MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE BROWN AND IVORY GROUND RETICULATED CENTERPIECE

DATE CYPHER FOR 1883, IMPRESSED AND GILT GLOBE MARK, SHAPE NO. 2452, RETAILER'S RIBBON FOR PHILLIPS, LONDON, SIGNED OBVERSE AND REVERSE L(AWRENCE) B(IRKS)

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A MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE BROWN AND IVORY GROUND RETICULATED CENTERPIECE
Date cypher for 1883, impressed and gilt globe mark, shape no. 2452, retailer's ribbon for Phillips, London, signed obverse and reverse L(awrence) B(irks)
With pierced loop gallery and foliate scroll handles, the central rectangular panel decorated with three putti making flower wreaths on a brown field within an olive-green frame gilt with entwined ribbon, the reverse with a similar panel of a putto instructing another from a tablet, flanked by gilt enriched Bérainesque panels, on four scroll feet
14in. (35.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

See Elizabeth Aslin and Paul Atterbury, Minton 1798-1910, Exhibition August - October 1976, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1976, p. 108, fig. TG62-70, pl. 93 for a similar centerpiece from a dessert service shown in the Paris Exhibition of 1889.

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