A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN AND CHOCOLATE-BROWN VASES
A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN AND CHOCOLATE-BROWN VASES
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, HOUSTON, TEXAS (LOT 560)
A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN AND CHOCOLATE-BROWN VASES

CIRCA 1875, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK TO ONE, SIGNED C.(HARLES) TOFT

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE OLIVE-GREEN AND CHOCOLATE-BROWN VASES
CIRCA 1875, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK TO ONE, SIGNED C.(HARLES) TOFT
In the Aesthetic taste, each of cylindrical form with ram's head handles, finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with birds, butterflies and a dragonfly in flight among peonies, prunus and other flowering branches, the neck and foot gilt with a fret-pattern band interrupted with bosses
17¼ in. (43.8 cm.) high (2)

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For a pair of vases of closely related form exhibited at the Paris Universelle Exposition, 1878, see J. Joans, Mintons, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 103 and p. 105 for a pair formerly in the Thomas Goode Collection. Also compare the pair sold Christie's, New York, 20 October 2009, lot 234.

Charles Toft Sr., a master craftsman well-known for his work in the style of Henri Deux ware, is also recorded executing pâte-sur-pâte at the highest level, see B. Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, London, 1992, p. 111. Very different to Solon's work, Toft's productions were generally described in the Minton archives as 'painted in relief' although the term pâte-sur-pâte is also occasionally found.

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