CIRCA 1880, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1261, SIGNED LAB, PROBABLY FOR LAWRENCE & ALBOIN BIRKS

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE GROUND VASES AND COVERS
Circa 1880, gilt crowned globe and impressed uppercase marks, shape no. 1261, signed LAB, probably for Lawrence & Alboin Birks
Each of shield shape, with berried finial and ram's head handles, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with three putti resting in clouds reserved on a cobalt-blue medallion edge by a wreath of roses crested with emblems of Peace or War and flanked by putti or winged herms on a continuous rinceau, draped with garlands, reserved on a black ground, the reverse with fruit and flowers resting in a basket beneath sparrows or among a ribbon-tied shell-moulded altar, the cover, shoulder and foot trimmed with lavender arabesques on cobalt-blue ribbons, the lower section moulded and enriched with stiff-leaf tips, on conforming socle and square base
17½in. (44.3cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

Lawrence and Alboin Birks were cousins who apprenticed under Louis Solon at Mintons, circa 1880. It is likely that the present examples represent a collaborative work of these two closely related mastercraftsmen. See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, London, 1992, p. 131, fig. 91 for an inkwell also thought to be a joint effort between these two artisans and bearing a monogram of their first initial.