A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED PILGRIM BOTTLES EMBLEMATIC OF 'WATER' AND 'EARTH'

CIRCA 1875, GILT CROWNED GLOBES AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, GILT H TO ONE AND GILT & TO THE OTHER

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED PILGRIM BOTTLES EMBLEMATIC OF 'WATER' AND 'EARTH'
Circa 1875, gilt crowned globes and impressed uppercase mark, gilt H to one and gilt & to the other
Each of flattened circular form with lug handles, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip after Boucher with putti either frolicking among waves and dolphin or slumbering among grapes, beside another with a basket, within a ribbon-tied surround decorated in polychrome pâte-sur-pâte with berried laurel, the reverse with either a fishing or a gardening trophy, respectively
10in. (26.7cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Joan Jones, Mintons, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 210 for a similar pilgrim flask decorated with a Bacchante; Also see Pierrette Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher, Paris, 1978, pp. 159-160, fig. 540 and 535 for engravings of the same subjects based on paintings by Boucher.

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