A PAIR OF MINTONS CELADON AND COBALT-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS

CIRCA 1880, ONE SIGNED L. SOLON, THE OTHER WITH HIS MONOGRAM

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A PAIR OF MINTONS CELADON AND COBALT-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS
Circa 1880, one signed L. Solon, the other with his monogram
Each after the Sèvres model, with perforated chain handles, decorated with oval panels emblematic of Dusk and Dawn reserved within gilt surrounds against a gilt starred cobalt-blue ground, the reverse with winged putti, the neck and foot with black foliate motif outlined in gilt and with a radiating sunburst of pale-blue beads
16in. (40.7cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, pp. 86, 278 for two Minton examples of the same form, shape number 469. See also p. 203 for a vase decorated by Louis Solon with a similar pâte-sur-pâte maiden and an in-depth discussion of this techinique.

Beginning in March 1878, Solon entered into a 10 year agreement with the Minton factory to serve as designer and modeller for the pâte-sur-pâte process. Although this piece is unmarked, it is most certainly a production of this period.