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A PAIR OF MINTONS RETICULATED PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN AND IVORY GROUND BOTTLE COOLERS

GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, PAINTED OO, RETAILER'S MARK FOR T(HOMAS) GOODE & CO., LONDON, AB MONOGRAMS FOR A(LBION) B(IRKS), DATE CYPHER FOR 1883

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A PAIR OF MINTONS RETICULATED PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN AND IVORY GROUND BOTTLE COOLERS
GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, PAINTED OO, RETAILER'S MARK FOR T(HOMAS) GOODE & CO., LONDON, AB MONOGRAMS FOR A(LBION) B(IRKS), DATE CYPHER FOR 1883
Each with pierced loop gallery and foliate scroll handles, the central rectangular panel painted and hand tooled in white slip with two amorous putti exchanging gifts of fruit or pearls, reserved on a brown field within an olive-green frame gilt with entwined ribbon, the reverse with a similar panel of a putto eating a peach or listening to a shell, flanked by gilt enriched Bérainesque panels, on four scroll feet
8 in. (23 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Elizabeth Aslin and Paul Atterbury, Minton 1798-1910, Exhibition August - October 1976, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1976, p. 108, fig. TG62-70, pl. 93 for a centerpiece from this dessert service shown in the Paris Exhibition of 1889. Also see a similar centerpiece was sold in these rooms on 31 October 2000, lot 263.

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