A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE IVORY-GROUND VASES AND COVERS

CIRCA 1905, GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARKS, SIGNED A(LBOIN) BIRKS

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE IVORY-GROUND VASES AND COVERS
Circa 1905, gilt crowned globe marks, signed A(lboin) Birks
Each of shield shape, with upright wreath and ribbon handles, decorated in white slip with a putto measuring the height of a nymph within an above arched-rectangular blue panel edged in grey, set on a wide green Bérainesque band, the reverse with an amatory trophy and enriched with gilt scale, tasselled drapery and foliate scrolls, on socle foot and square base
17in. (43cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramics Relief Decoration 1849-1992, Essex, 1992, p. 147 for a very similar single example. The subjects on the present example is possibly titled 'Taking the Height'.

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