DATE CYPHER FOR 1922-26, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, RETAILER'S MARK FOR DAVIS COLLAMORE AND CO. LTD., PATTERN NO. H3553, SIGNED WITH AN AB MONOGRAM AND A(LBOIN) BIRKS

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TWELVE MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PALE-BLUE AND IVORY-GROUND PLATES
DATE CYPHER FOR 1922-26, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, RETAILER'S MARK FOR DAVIS COLLAMORE AND CO. LTD., PATTERN NO. H3553, SIGNED WITH AN AB MONOGRAM AND A(LBOIN) BIRKS
Each wide border set with three shaped blue-ground panels painted and hand tooled in white slip with bacchantes attended by putti within raised-gilt surrounds, reserved on an ivory band enriched with stylized torcheres and garlands, the cavetto and rim with beaded gilt bands
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter (12)

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 212 for examples by Alboin Birks; also see Master Pieces of Minton, Selected Items from the Minton Museum Collection, Bonhams, London, 23 July 2002, lot 216 and 218 for examples decorated with identical pâte-sur-pâte panels.

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