A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE GREEN AND PEACOCK-BLUE CACHE-POT

DATE CYPHER FOR 1909, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SIGNED A(LBOIN) BIRKS

细节

A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE GREEN AND PEACOCK-BLUE CACHE-POT
DATE CYPHER FOR 1909, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SIGNED A(LBOIN) BIRKS
With foliate scroll handles, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a putto emblematic of Ceramic Art, depicted seated on a stool painting a figure, reserved on a green field within elaborate gilt scrolling foliage, the reverse with a Bérainesque urn suspending foliage and flaming torches
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high

拍品专文

See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration 1849-1992, Essex, 1992, p. 146, fig 111 for a cache-pot also emblematic of the Arts. Also see anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 20 April 2005, lot 137 for a very similar example.