'The Look'
A Mintons pâte-sur-pâte oviform vase
Year cypher for 1893, gilt globe and impressed marks
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'The Look' A Mintons pâte-sur-pâte oviform vase Year cypher for 1893, gilt globe and impressed marks

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'The Look'
A Mintons pâte-sur-pâte oviform vase
Year cypher for 1893, gilt globe and impressed marks
Decorated by Louis Solon with a maiden supporting Cupid holding a wreath, the reverse with putti kneeling before a flaming basin upon an altar, signed, between blue green and terracotta coloured bands of stylised leaves (one handle restored some flaking to gilding)
15¾in. (40cm.) high
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 the cataloguing of the above lot.

Lot Essay

Cf. Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production (1993), p. 197 for an illustration of a related vase, shape 3155.

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