A PAIR OF LOUIS SOLON PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE OLIVE-GREEN RECTANGULAR PLAQUES EMBLEMATIC OF DAWN AND DUSK

CIRCA 1880, SIGNED L. SOLON

细节

A PAIR OF LOUIS SOLON PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE OLIVE-GREEN RECTANGULAR PLAQUES EMBLEMATIC OF DAWN AND DUSK
Circa 1880, signed L. Solon
Each finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a diaphanously draped nymph flanked by putti surrounded by a field of gilt stars, one with a putto blowing a trumpet heralding the dawn of a new day, his companion holding a nest of newly hatched chicks and a blossoming branch; the other with a putto bearing a torch into the midnight sky, his sleeping companion being sprinkled with star-dust
14¼ x 10¼in. (36 x 26cm.), within ebonized black wood frames (2)

拍品专文

In 1878 Louis Solon negotiated his third contract with Mintons. This contract gave him the ability to make and sell his own plaques using materials purchased from the factory. Also see Joan Jones, Mintons, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 203 for a vase by Solon decorated with a maiden surrounded by stars, circa 1890.