A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN VASE
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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN VASE

GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2443, SIGNED A.(LBOIN) BIRKS, DATE CYPHER OF A SWAN 1895-1900

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN VASE
GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2443, SIGNED A.(LBOIN) BIRKS, DATE CYPHER OF A SWAN 1895-1900
Of tapering cylindrical form, the shoulder gilt with a band of berried vine, painted and hand tooled in white slip after a design by Louis Solon with a nymph teaching an armored putto to shoot a bow and arrow, the reverse with a ribbon-tied trophy
7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Mintons, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 320, for a pair of 'Prototype vases'. It is interesting to note that the directors at Mintons chose this subject to commemorate the firm's Bicentenary and that Joan Jones selected this work as the ultimate illustration for her tome on the factory's history. For a similar example see anonymous sale Christie's, New York 10 October 2001, lot 190.

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