A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASES

CIRCA 1895, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2443, GILT 16.1.95 K, BOTH SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASES
CIRCA 1895, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2443, GILT 16.1.95 k, BOTH SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Oviform, the shoulder enriched with gilt-scale pattern, each finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a putto either standing and holding a scythe and a rose stem or tearfully sacrificing a butterfly at an altar, reserved on a powder-gilt ground, the base edged with egg-and-dart pattern
5 7/8 in. (14.8 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Based on the Mintons Shape Book indistinct entries, the present examples are possibly titled 'Harvest' and 'Butterfly'. This pair are recorded among the period photogrphs in the Minton archive, file no. 1638, box 89, no. 34.

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