GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SIGNED L. SOLON, DATE CYPHER FOR 1894

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN CABINET PLATE
GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SIGNED L. SOLON, DATE CYPHER FOR 1894
Finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a muse emblematic of theatre seated in a klismos chair holding a mask, enclosed by a pale-pink ribbon enriched with gilt rosettes and oeil-de-perdrix, within a dentil rim
9½ in. (24 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration 1849-1992, Essex, 1992, p. 143, fig. 105-107 for an illustration of a similarly composed plaque and an archival drawing by Louis Solon of a seated figure.

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