THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN AND CHOCOLATE-BROWN GROUND TWO-HANDLED PILGRIM BOTTLE

IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, MODEL NO. 1348, GILT 3, LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS, CIRCA 1880

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN AND CHOCOLATE-BROWN GROUND TWO-HANDLED PILGRIM BOTTLE
IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, MODEL NO. 1348, GILT 3, LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS, CIRCA 1880
Of flattened circular form with lug handles, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a reclining River God spilling water from a vase, flanked by bulrushes, the reverse with a fishing trophy within a circular beaded 'ivory' surround, on a short oval foot
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Year of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 210 for an illustration and discussion of this model; Also see Art and Industry, Selected Items from the Royal Crown Derby and Minton Museum, Sotheby's, London, 8 November 1999, lot 62; and Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramics Relief Decoration 1849-1992, Essex, 1992, cl. pl. XV.

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