A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE OVIFORM VASE
A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE OVIFORM VASE

CIRCA 1900, GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARK, INCISED SHAPE NO. 2443, SIGNED A.(LBOIN) BIRKS

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE OVIFORM VASE
Circa 1900, gilt crowned globe mark, incised shape no. 2443, signed A.(lboin) Birks
Finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a standing nymph attended by two grief stricken putti, beneath a ribbon-tied laurel swag, the shoulder enriched with gilt scale pattern
8½in. (21.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years Of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 191 for a full page illustration of this form and colour executed by L. Solons and p. 208 for a similar pair by Alboin Birks.

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