A MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE BROWN-GROUND VASE

DATE CYPHER FOR 1906, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2443, SIGNED A.(LBOIN) BIRKS

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A MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE BROWN-GROUND VASE
Date cypher for 1906, gilt crowned globe and impressed uppercase marks, shape no. 2443, signed A.(lboin) Birks
Of tapering cylindrical form, the shoulder gilt with a band of berried vine, painted and hand tooled in white slip after a design by Louis Solon with a Nymph teaching an armored putto to shoot a bow and arrow, the reverse with a ribbon-tied trophy
7 5/8in. (19.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Mintons, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 320, for a pair of 'Prototype vases'. It is interesting to note that the directors at Mintons choose this subject to commemorate the firm's Bicentenary and that Joan Jones selected this work as the ultimate illustration for her tome on the factory's history.

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