A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN PILGRIM BOTTLES
A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN PILGRIM BOTTLES

GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, ONE SIGNED MLS FOR MARC LOUIS SOLON, CIRCA 1880

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN PILGRIM BOTTLES
GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, ONE SIGNED MLS FOR MARC LOUIS SOLON, CIRCA 1880
Each emblematic of Blind Love, painted and hand tooled in white slip with either a male or female classical figure seated beside an oil lamp in a klismos chair, holding an open book inscribed with a heart, attended by a putto covering his or her eyes, above a scroll work bracket, reserved on a smokey brown ground, the gilt enriched neck and foot in blue and olive pâte-sur-pâte with vine or Vitruvian scrolls
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

See the note to the preceding lot. The Mintons archive records several drawings by Solon exploring aspects of Love and featuring a seated classical figure in a klismos chair. Cited above is an image of 'Le Collier'.