DATE CYPHER FOR 1881, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS AND VARIOUS CYPHERS, INCISED SHAPE NO. 1819, SIGNED WITH AN LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS

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A MINTONS POLYCHROME PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN PILGRIM BOTTLE
DATE CYPHER FOR 1881, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS AND VARIOUS CYPHERS, INCISED SHAPE NO. 1819, SIGNED WITH AN LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS
Of flask form, the neck flanked by gilt tubular handles, finely painted and hand-tooled in colored slip with two putti in flight among flowers, the reverse with three butterflies among gilt stars, on a conforming oval foot
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high

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Lawrence Birks is recorded at Mintons producing masterworks in pâte-sur-pâte from 1872-1895 and is thought to complete the trio of assistants as stipulated in Solon's contract of 1871. Circa 1895, he left the firm to set up an independent workshop and is recorded producing pâte-sur-pâte works until 1917.

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