A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE POLYCHROME-PANELLED IVORY-GROUND VASES AND COVERS

DATE CYPHERS FOR 1884, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1013, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, SIGNED WITH AN AB MONOGRAM FOR ALBOIN BIRKS

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE POLYCHROME-PANELLED IVORY-GROUND VASES AND COVERS
DATE CYPHERS FOR 1884, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1013, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, SIGNED WITH AN AB MONOGRAM FOR ALBOIN BIRKS
EACH OF SHIELD SHAPE, THE DOMED COVER WITH BUD FINIAL, THE WAISTED NECK WITH DRAPERY ENRICHED WITH OEIL-DE-PERDRIX, FLANKED BY UPRIGHT GILT RIBBON-TIED WREATH HANDLES, FINELY PAINTED AND HAND-TOOLED IN WHITE SLIP WITH PUTTI EITHER FISHING OR HUNTING RESERVED ON A PEACOCK-BLUE RECTANGULAR PANEL, THE CORRESPONDING REVERSE WITH PUTTI PREPARING FISHING LURES BEFORE A BUCKET OR HONING ARROWS AT A WHETSTONE, THE SIDES WITH FOLIATE AND FEMALE HERM ARABESQUES ON OLIVE-GREEN GROUND PANELS, ALL SET ON A CHOCOLATE-BROWN BAND EDGED WITH KEY-PATTERN, THE TAPERING LOWER SECTION OF THE VASE ENRICHED WITH A GILT BAND SUSPENDING GRAPEVINE, ABOVE SPIRALLING FRONDS, ON A CONFORMING CIRCULAR FOOT WITH RIBBON-TIED WREATH KNOP
15½ IN. (39.4 CM.) HIGH (4)

Provenance

WILLIAM BALLARD HOY AND ESTHER HILL HOYT, CIRCA 1884
ALBERTINE HILL HOYT GLENNY AND BRYAN BURWELL GLENNY, 1945
ALBERTINE HOYT GLENNY CROFT AND JAMES HERBERT CROFT, 1977
DAVID GIFFORD CROFT AND NANCY SORENSEN CROFT, 2004

Lot Essay

BY TRADITION THIS PAIR OF VASES HAS BEEN IN THE HANDS OF ONE FAMILY SINCE THEY WERE MADE. SEE BERNARD BUMPUS, PâTE-SUR-PâTE, THE ART OF CERAMIC RELIEF DECORATION 1849-1992, ESSEX, 1992, P. 147 FIG. 112 FOR ANOTHER EXAMPLE BY A. BIRKS OF SIMILAR FORM.

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