A MINTONS TRICOLOUR PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE IVORY-GROUND VASE AND COVER
A MINTONS TRICOLOUR PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE IVORY-GROUND VASE AND COVER

DATED 1889, PUCE PRINTED CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1013, SIGNED L(AWRENCE) B(IRKS)

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A MINTONS TRICOLOUR PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE IVORY-GROUND VASE AND COVER
Dated 1889, puce printed crowned globe and impressed uppercase marks, shape no. 1013, signed L(awrence) B(irks)
With gilt spire finial and domed cover above the waisted neck flanked by upright gilt ribbon-tied wreath handles, the front finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a scantily draped Ceres eating a peach and reclining beside an overflowing cornucopia of fruit, a putto with a basket of fruit on his back approaching from the right, within a rectangular cartouche edged in pale-blue slip, the back with a white slip trophy, the sides with white slip eagle, urn and foliate arabesques on green-ground panels edged in pale-blue, the tapering lower section of the vase enriched with gilt flowerheads between bands of gilt vine and gadroons, on a circular base with ribbon-tied wreath knop
16in. (40.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 214 for pieces from a dessert service, decorated by Lawrence Birks, for Minton, exhibited by Thomas Goode & Co. at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. The finely detailed small panels and beautifully executed gilt decoration that Minton and its artisans were famous for are all combined in the present lot. See also, the note to the following lot.

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