A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE VASES AND COVERS EMBLEMATIC OF DAWN AND DUSK

DATE CYPHERS FOR 1892, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2969, VARIOUS CYPHERS, SIGNED L SOLON

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE VASES AND COVERS EMBLEMATIC OF DAWN AND DUSK
Date cyphers for 1892, gilt crowned globe and impressed uppercase marks, shape no. 2969, various cyphers, signed L Solon
Each of baluster form with upright loop scroll handles, the neck and socle enriched in gilt-scale pattern, painted and hand tooled in white slip with a diaphanously draped celestial goddess Aurora or Diana with their respective attributes, the reverse with a companion putto heralding the mourn or carrying a twilight torch, on socle and circular foot
13¾in. (35.cm) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 190 for an illustration of a group of wares demonstrating the range of tinted body colours available. The group includes an olive-green vase of identical form decorated with a diaphanously clad nymph by Louis Solon and another form by Solon on peacock blue. Also see an anon. sale, Christie's East, New York, 14 October 1999, lots 22 and 23 for further paired vases by the same artist.

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