Lot Essay
This plate was almost certainly one of the fourteen dessert plates decorated by Marc Louis Solon for the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873.
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YEAR CYPHER FOR 1871, IMPRESSED MARKS, PUCE GLOBE MARK
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A Minton pâte-sur-pâte plate
Year cypher for 1871, impressed marks, puce globe mark
Decorated by Marc Louis Solon with 'Danceur Decord', depicting a scantilly-clad nymph balancing on a tight-rope holding a cane vertically, from which is suspended a heart at one end and a purse at the other, monogrammed, on a black ground within sea-green band decorated in blue with hearts and circles and gilt ornament within concentric blue lines, gilt dentil rim (minor surface scratches and rubbing to gilding)
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diam.
Year cypher for 1871, impressed marks, puce globe mark
Decorated by Marc Louis Solon with 'Danceur Decord', depicting a scantilly-clad nymph balancing on a tight-rope holding a cane vertically, from which is suspended a heart at one end and a purse at the other, monogrammed, on a black ground within sea-green band decorated in blue with hearts and circles and gilt ornament within concentric blue lines, gilt dentil rim (minor surface scratches and rubbing to gilding)
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diam.
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