A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN AND SALMON-PINK GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASE

GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2443, SIGNED WITH AN AB MONOGRAM FOR ALBOIN BIRKS, DATE CYPHER FOR 1889

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN AND SALMON-PINK GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASE
GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2443, SIGNED WITH AN AB MONOGRAM FOR ALBOIN BIRKS, DATE CYPHER FOR 1889
Of baluster form flanked by Bacchic mask handles, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a standing figure of Bacchus holding a goblet beneath a grape arbour, the reverse with putto viewed from the back seated on a wreath of fruiting vine
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Ruel P. Tolman, 'Pâte-sur-Pâte', The Magazine Antiques, January 1950, p. 53 for a similar example by Solon bequeathed in 1924 by Alfred Duane Pell to the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. Also see Skinner's, Boston, 12 October 1996, lot 79, for a similar pair of vases designed by Solon.

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