Lot Essay
Cf. Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production (1993), p. 207 for a related vase.
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'Diving'
A Mintons pâte-sur-pâte blue-ground oviform vase
Circa 1900, gilt globe mark, shape 3355
In the Art Nouveau taste, decorated by Louis Solon with a water nymph and naiad and winged putti, the air filled with butterflies, the reverse with foliage, below a raised gilt scroll border (some rubbing to gilding)
12 3/8in. (31.5cm.) high
See front cover detail
A Mintons pâte-sur-pâte blue-ground oviform vase
Circa 1900, gilt globe mark, shape 3355
In the Art Nouveau taste, decorated by Louis Solon with a water nymph and naiad and winged putti, the air filled with butterflies, the reverse with foliage, below a raised gilt scroll border (some rubbing to gilding)
12 3/8in. (31.5cm.) high
See front cover detail
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
Further details
Christie's gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Bernard Bumpus in cataloguing the above lot.