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
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A Minton pâte-sur-pâte plate
Year cypher for 1871, impressed marks
Decorated by Marc Louis Solon with 'Bouclier', depicting a nymph wearing loose drapes, walking on a horizontally balanced bow, holding a shield with a heart being targeted by arrows, monogrammed, on a black ground within a band decorated with blue foliage and fan-shaped flowers, suspending gilt pendant hearts between blue concentric lines, gilt dentil rim (minor surface scratches and rubbing to gilding)
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) diam.
Year cypher for 1871, impressed marks
Decorated by Marc Louis Solon with 'Bouclier', depicting a nymph wearing loose drapes, walking on a horizontally balanced bow, holding a shield with a heart being targeted by arrows, monogrammed, on a black ground within a band decorated with blue foliage and fan-shaped flowers, suspending gilt pendant hearts between blue concentric lines, gilt dentil rim (minor surface scratches and rubbing to gilding)
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) diam.
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