DATE CYPHER FOR 1894, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, MODEL NO. 2443, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE GROUND TAPERING SHIELD-SHAPED VASE
DATE CYPHER FOR 1894, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, MODEL NO. 2443, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
The shoulder enriched with a gilt scale pattern reserved on a pale-green ground, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with Mercury standing on the globe rowing with a Venetian oar through a procession of planets, the reverse with gilt enriched winged planets in flight among clouds
8¾ in. (22.3 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See an anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 23 April 2004, lot 381 for a similar example. See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Year of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, opposing p. 190 for a full page illustration of this model also by Solon.

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