A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN VASE

CIRCA 1900, GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARK, INCISED SHAPE NO. 2443, SIGNED A(LBOIN) BIRKS

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN VASE
Circa 1900, gilt crowned globe mark, incised shape no. 2443, signed A(lboin) Birks
Of shield shape, the shoulder enriched with gilt scale pattern, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a standing nymph attended by two grief stricken putti, beneath a ribbon-tied laurel swag
8½ in. (21.6cm.) high

拍品專文

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years Of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 191 for a full page illustration of this form and colour executed by Louis Solon and p. 208 for a similar pair by Alboin Birks.