ELEVEN MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PALE-BLUE AND IVORY-GROUND SERVICE PLATES

GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, RETAILER'S MARK FOR DAVIS COLLAMORE & CO. LTD, NEW YORK, GILT PATTERN NO. H2572, SIGNED WITH AN AB MONOGRAM FOR ALBOIN BIRKS, VARIOUS INDISTINCT IMPRESSED CYPHERS, CIRCA 1910

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ELEVEN MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PALE-BLUE AND IVORY-GROUND SERVICE PLATES
GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, RETAILER'S MARK FOR DAVIS COLLAMORE & CO. LTD, NEW YORK, GILT PATTERN NO. H2572, SIGNED WITH AN AB MONOGRAM FOR ALBOIN BIRKS, VARIOUS INDISTINCT IMPRESSED CYPHERS, CIRCA 1910
Each wide border set with three shaped-triangular blue-ground panels painted and hand tooled in white slip with Art Nouveau siren in various attitudes, one playing a harp, another seated among heavily scented lilies, the third serving love potions to putti, within beaded surrounds, reserved by ivory scallops enriched with raised gilt foliate scrolls, the cavetto and rim with gilt beads
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) diameter (11)

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Mintons, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 212 for a similar example; also see Master Pieces of Minton, Selected Items from the Minton Museum Collection, Bonhams, London, 23 July 2002, lot 221 for the same example.

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