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A PAIR OF MINTONS MONOGRAMMED PATE-SUR-PATE DEEP-BLUE AND CHOCOLATE-BROWN MOON FLASKS

DATE CYPHERS FOR 1873, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, MODEL NO. 1303, BOTH SIGNED L.(OUIS) S.(OLON)

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A PAIR OF MINTONS MONOGRAMMED PATE-SUR-PATE DEEP-BLUE AND CHOCOLATE-BROWN MOON FLASKS
Date cyphers for 1873, impressed uppercase marks, various impressed cyphers, model no. 1303, both signed L.(ouis) S.(olon)
Each of disc form on splayed feet, the shoulder with polychrome pâte-sur-pâte strapwork, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a classical maiden either holding a broom sweeping a putto out the door or with a putto trying to capture a maiden in a circular net, the reverse enriched with a gilt ducal coronet entwined with a mirror SC monogram
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The Ducal SC armorial on the present lot could relate to the Duke of Cleveland and Southampton. In Thomas Goode's records the Duke is recorded as the purchaser of a related pair of celebrated pâte-changeante flasks; see Masterpieces of Minton: Selected Items from the Minton Museum Collection, Bonhams, London, 5 October 2004, lot 34. Perhaps by coincidence, one of the pair is decorated in the same spirit with the 'Balayeuse' or female sweeper.

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