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

DATE CYPHERS FOR 1902, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, S AND X, INCISED 2449, GILT 25.1.05 2 469, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASES AND COVERS
DATE CYPHERS FOR 1902, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, S AND X, INCISED 2449, GILT 25.1.05 2 469, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Modeled after the Sèvres form 'Vase Paris', of baluster shape flanked by perforated chain handles, each finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a diaphanously draped maiden and suitor either supporting a putto or setting him free, the reverse with either a putto tethered to a pillar before an arched pergola suspending caged owls or with a putto radiating light before a broken column, birds in flight around him, the neck and socle gilt with alternating flower-heads and dots, on a conforming square base
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high (4)

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Lot Essay

In the Sèvres factory archives, this shape is referred to as a 'vase C de 1780' and a 'vase Paris'. Its design is attributed to the head of the soft-paste workshop Jacques-François Paris (or Deparis).

As noted by the gilder and by the Mintons Shape Book for this pair, the correct shape number at Mintons for this form is no. 469, 'Vase with Perforated Chain Handle'. The Mintons Shape Book entry of January 1904, lists the present pair as titled 'Prisoner' and 'Escape'.

Retiring in 1904, Solon continued to make pâte-sur-pâte at home until his death in 1913. The present pair gilded on the 25th of January 1905 are among the last masterworks created by Solon for the Mintons Manufactory and gilded just post his departure.

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