拍品 128
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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK BLUE VASE
A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK BLUE VASE

CIRCA 1900, GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARKS, RETAILER'S MARK FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, INCISED MODEL NO. 2443, SIGNED A(LBOIN) BIRKS

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK BLUE VASE
CIRCA 1900, GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARKS, RETAILER'S MARK FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, INCISED MODEL NO. 2443, SIGNED A(LBOIN) BIRKS
Of tapering cylindrical form, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with Venus teaching an infant Cupid how to aim his potent arrow, the reverse with an amatory ribbon-tied trophy
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

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See an anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 20 April 2005, lot 136 for a pair of vases decorated with mythic archers and putti emblematic of Love and War, including one nearly identical to the present work ($18,000).