THE PROPERTY OF A MID-WESTERN COLLECTOR

A MONUMENTAL MINTONS EXPOSITION POLYCHROME PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE SCROLL-HANDLED JUBILEE VASE

SIGNED AND DATED L.(OUIS) SOLON 18(88), GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARK, RETAILER'S MARK FOR A.B. DANIELL & SONS, LONDON, IMPRESSED SHAPE NO. 2851

細節

A MONUMENTAL MINTONS EXPOSITION POLYCHROME PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE SCROLL-HANDLED JUBILEE VASE
Signed and dated L.(ouis) Solon 18(88), gilt crowned globe mark, retailer's mark for A.B. Daniell & Sons, London, impressed shape no. 2851
Of drum-shape, the flaring neck flanked by scrolling ribbon handles enriched with gilt scale pattern, the body finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a continuous scene of four scantily clad bound nymphs being liberated by warrior putti, an emblem of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, appearing in the form of either a sculpture, an owl or a bust to the left of each nymph, the neck enriched in polychrome pate-sur-pate with an entwined love knot above stylized trefoil and lotus blossoms, the socle issuing ribbons bound by a gilt berried laurel wreath, above anthemion, on a square base edged with gilt bands
32 in. (81.3 cm.) high

來源

Property from the Estate of Wilfred Swall, Sotheby's, New York, 20-23 April 1983, lot 462

展覽

Paris Universelle Exposition, 1889

拍品專文

Please note only two vases of this form are known. The Jubilee vase earned its title, as it was designed and presented by Minton to Queen Victoria on the occassion of her Golden Jubilee in 1887. Then heralded as 'the greatest triumph of the potter's art ever achieved', it was first exhibited at St. James's Palace in October, prior to being presented to the Queen at Winsdor Castle. See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, 1992, colour plate XX and p. 127. This example is now located at Osborne House.

The present example is thought to be the vase exhibited by A.B. Daniell & Sons at the 1889 Paris Universelle Exposition. Bumpus notes on p. 130-131 that the Minton records list the Exposition Jubilee vase and several other pieces as being supplied to T. Goode and not to A.B. Daniell, 'though it is clear from the press reports that it was Daniell which displayed the vases'. Evidently the two retailers present in Paris came to some kind of agreement. It is also now clear, based on the retailer's mark on the bottom of the piece, that the delivery of the Jubilee vase was always intended for A.B. Daniell & Sons' stand.