A MOORE BROTHERS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN GROUND PILGRIM FLASK

CIRCA 1880, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, SIGNED WITH AN HS MONOGRAM FOR HENRY SANDERS

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A MOORE BROTHERS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN GROUND PILGRIM FLASK
Circa 1880, impressed uppercase mark, signed with an HS monogram for Henry Sanders
Of flattened spherical form, painted and hand tooled in white slip with two putti running in frilly shorts and drapery and a third entangled about a flag pole, the short neck and splayed feet accented with black tracery
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Henry Sanders was apprenticed to Louis Solon at Mintons and is recorded at Moore Brothers in 1877. See an anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 10 October 2001, lot 182 and an anonymous sale, Christie's, New York 26 October 2004, lot 116 for similar pairs of pilgrim flasks.

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