CIRCA 1880, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK AND GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND PRINTED RETAILER'S MARK FOR BAILEY, BANKS AND BIDDLE, PHILADELPHIA, INCISED INVENTORY NUMBER 3279/40, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASE
CIRCA 1880, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK AND GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND PRINTED RETAILER'S MARK FOR BAILEY, BANKS AND BIDDLE, PHILADELPHIA, INCISED INVENTORY NUMBER 3279/40, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
OF BALUSTER FORM, THE LONG NECK ENRICHED IN GILT WITH STYLIZED ANTHEMION AND LOTUS BLOSSOMS AND FLANKED BY UPRIGHT SCROLL-HANDLES, FINELY PAINTED AND HAND-TOOLED IN WHITE SLIP WITH A NYMPH ATTENDED BY PUTTI SCATTERING ROSES BEFORE AN ALTAR HERM OF MINERVA, THE REVERSE WITH A PUTTO SEATED ON A SCROLL BRACKET INCORPORATING TWO OWLS PERCHED ABOVE PENDENT CHAINS, ON A CONFORMING CIRCULAR FOOT AND SQUARE BASE
23 5/8 IN. (57.4 CM.) HIGH

Provenance

ESTATE OF WILFRED SWALL, SOTHEBY PARKE BERNET INC., NEW YORK, 20-23 1983, LOT 470

Lot Essay

SEE JOAN JONES, MINTON, THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF DESIGN & PRODUCTION, 1993, P. 192 AND 193 FOR A PAIR OF VASES OF SIMILAR FORM EXHIBITED AT THE 1878 PARIS UNIVERSELLE EXPOSITION. ALSO SEE P. 198 FOR ANOTHER PAIR ENTITLED ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL AND THE NOTE TO LOT 285.

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