A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN PILGRIM BOTTLE, 'EQUILIBRE'

DATE CYPHER FOR 1890, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1348 AND VARIOUS CYPHERS, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN PILGRIM BOTTLE, 'EQUILIBRE'
DATE CYPHER FOR 1890, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1348 AND VARIOUS CYPHERS, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Of flask form, the polychrome banded neck edge by pendant poppies, flanked by lug handles, the body finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a seated nymph steadying a putto as he balances on three upturned torches, a host of enthusiastic putti looking on from below, the reverse with a putto balancing on an arrow amongst stars, the oval foot edge by budding vine and gilt devices, within gilt rims
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Freeman's, Philadelphia, 20 March 2004, lot 587.

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Lot Essay

Solon's Illustrated Journal records this vase as one of a pair completed between the 11th of January and the 11th of February 1892. For another vase of this form by Solon, see Minton Pâte-sur-Pâte Masterworks from a Distinguished Private Collection, Christie's, 21 October 2008, lot 5.

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