A MINTONS POLYCHROME PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN VASE

DATE CYPHER FOR 1887, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, IMPRESSED LETTER AND CYPHER, ETCHED 724, GILT RETAILER'S MARK FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A MINTONS POLYCHROME PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN VASE
DATE CYPHER FOR 1887, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, IMPRESSED LETTER AND CYPHER, ETCHED 724, GILT RETAILER'S MARK FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
OF BULBOUS BALUSTER FORM, THE SHOULDER WITH A BLUE AND GILT CHRYSANTHEMUM BAND FLANKED BY TWO UPRIGHT BRACKET HANDLES BISECTED BY A BEADED RING AND WITH DOUBLE FEMALE-MASK TERMINALS, FINELY PAINTED AND HAND-TOOLED IN WHITE SLIP WITH A WOODLAND VIEW OF NYMPHS SHOOTING ARROWS AT PUTTI IN FLIGHT, THE REVERSE WITH PUTTI TETHERED ABOUT A PILLAR ENCLOSING A HEART, ON A CONFORMING SOCLE
25¼ IN. (64.1 CM.) HIGH

Provenance

ESTATE OF WILFRED SWALL, SOTHEBY PARKE BERNET, INC., NEW YORK, 20-23 APRIL 1983, LOT 466

Lot Essay

SEE BERNARD BUMPUS, PâTE-SUR-PâTE, THE ART OF CERAMIC RELIEF DECORATION, 1849-1992, 1992, COLOR PLATE XXII; ELIZABETH ASLIN AND PAUL ATTERBRUY, MINTON 1798-1910, LONDON, 1976, P. 102, PL. 83, CAT. TG22; AND JOAN JONES, MINTON, THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION, 1993, PP. 205-6 FOR A VASE OF THE SAME FORM TITLE LA PêCHE WHICH WAS DISPLAYED AT THE 1889 PARIS UNIVERSELLE EXPOSITION.

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