A MINTONS TEAL-BLUE GROUND PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE TWO-HANDLED VASE AND COVER

CIRCA 1907, GILT GLOBE MARK, INCISED 1808, GILT NP1401., SHAPE NO. 2449, RETAILED BY TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK

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A MINTONS TEAL-BLUE GROUND PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE TWO-HANDLED VASE AND COVER
Circa 1907, gilt globe mark, incised 1808, gilt NP1401., shape no. 2449, retailed by Tiffany & Co., New York
The domed cover with spire finial above the spiral-fluted neck enriched in gilt and flanked by gilt wreath and lug handles, painted and tooled in white slip with an nymph seated on a fluted columnar stool tapping a tambourine issuing a swarm of putti, the back with putti in flight around a tree with a bee hive, the lower section gilt with faux gadroons, on a spiral-fluted socle and square base
14in. (35.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 202 for an identical vase and decoration on a brown ground by Birks. See also, Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, London, 1992, p. 115 for a plaque by Marc Louis Solon, titled 'Abeilles' adapted by Birks for the present piece.

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