Lot Essay
Cf. Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 193 and 209 for pâte-sur-pâte examples of this form by Louis Solon and Albion Birks
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CIRCA 1876, SHAPE NO. 1937, SIGNED L. SOLON
Details
A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE OLIVE-GREEN GROUND VASES OF 'THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CUPID'
Circa 1876, shape no. 1937, signed L. Solon
Each of baluster form, the flaring neck flanked by twisted rope handles with gilt and platinum enriched Bacchic mask terminals, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a continuous allegorical frieze of either the birth and instruction or the conflicts and death of Cupid, within cobalt-blue foliate rinceaux bands reserved by an elaborately panelled gilt seeded ground, incorporating stylized anthemion and coloured slip strapwork, on spreading foot and square base, Doheny Collection no. 37
17½in. (44.5cm.) high (2)
Circa 1876, shape no. 1937, signed L. Solon
Each of baluster form, the flaring neck flanked by twisted rope handles with gilt and platinum enriched Bacchic mask terminals, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a continuous allegorical frieze of either the birth and instruction or the conflicts and death of Cupid, within cobalt-blue foliate rinceaux bands reserved by an elaborately panelled gilt seeded ground, incorporating stylized anthemion and coloured slip strapwork, on spreading foot and square base, Doheny Collection no. 37
17½in. (44.5cm.) high (2)
Provenance
With J.W. Robinson Co., Los Angeles, 5 June 1940