A MINTONS TEAL-GROUND PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE 'POMPEII' VASE

CIRCA 1900, GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARK, GILT K, SIGNED A(LBOIN) BIRKS

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A MINTONS TEAL-GROUND PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE 'POMPEII' VASE
Circa 1900, gilt crowned globe mark, gilt K, signed A(lboin) Birks
Ovoid, with gilt rim and shoulder edge enclosing a band of gilt trailing foliage, the sides painted and hand tooled in white slip with a continuous frieze of putti with sledge hammers standing on a raised columnar balustrade hammering at a chain fence, the ground below with small leafy shrubs
7in. (17.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p 208 for a pair of vases of this shape (no. 2443) by Birks and p. 200 for the vase exhibited by Minton at the Paris Exhibition of 1878, designed by Carrier-Belleuse and decorated by Marc Louis Solon, for a frieze of putti hammering at chains, obviously the inspiration for the present piece

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