DATE CYPHER FOR 1883, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1722, BOTH SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN AND DARK-GREEN VASES, 'ZODIAC'
DATE CYPHER FOR 1883, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1722, BOTH SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Each cylindrical neck decorated in dark green pâte-sur-pâte on a mottled ground with a gilt enriched balustraded gallery, flanked by strap loop handles with rosette terminals, the shoulder with radiating panels of gilt fronds above a conforming scroll gallery, the body finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a continuous freize of seated nymphs holding seasonal attributes alternating with putti suspended among ripe and blossoming foliage corresponding to the astrological time of the medallions held in their hands, above tall rectangular panels enriched as stylized grain tips, on a short circular foot, the weighted original mahogany stands with porcelain claw-like clasps
16 1/8 in. (41 cm.) high (2)

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See The Magazine of Art of 1890, for an illustration of the example shown here at the left. This image is also reproduced by Geoffrey Godden, Staffordshire Porcelain, London, 1983, p. 332. Also see an anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 20 & 21 April 2005, lot 138 for a pair of this form; and compare Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 197-210 for additional pâte-sur-pâte examples of this form.