A MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE OLIVE AND BROWN GROUND THREE-PIECE GARNITURE

CIRCA 1900, GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARKS AND VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, SHAPE NO. 7 TO THE EWERS AND 1914 TO THE VASE, GILT NP1422, AFTER DESIGNS BY LOUIS SOLON, EXECUTED AND SIGNED A(LBION) BIRKS

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A MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE OLIVE AND BROWN GROUND THREE-PIECE GARNITURE
Circa 1900, gilt crowned globe marks and various impressed cyphers, shape No. 7 to the ewers and 1914 to the vase, gilt NP1422, after designs by Louis Solon, executed and signed A(lbion) Birks
The garniture composed of two 'Pembroke' ewers and a two-handled vase and cover, each painted and hand tooled in white slip with a classical maiden attended by putti reserved on a green ground oval medallion within a gilt beaded surround draped with ribbon-tied bell-flowers, above stiff leaf tips, on gardooned socle and square base
13¼in. (33.7cm.) high, the vase and cover (3)

Lot Essay

See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-pâte, London, 1992, p. 144., fig. 108 for a similar garniture. Also see Geoffrey Godden, Staffordshire Porcelain, London, 1983, p. 331, fig. 507 and colour pl. XIX for a documentary photograph of Léon Arnoux, Minton's French Art Directory, in his studio holding a similar ewer.

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