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THE PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
TWELVE MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE IVORY-GROUND RETICULATED CABINET PLATES
CIRCA 1900-05, GILT PRINTED CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, TWO WITH REGISTRY DIAMONDS FOR 1874, TWO WITH RETAILER'S MARKS FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, TEN WITH MONOGRAM OR SIGNATURE FOR ALBOIN BIRKS, TWO WITH MONOGRAM FOR ARTHUR MORGAN
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TWELVE MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE IVORY-GROUND RETICULATED CABINET PLATES
CIRCA 1900-05, GILT PRINTED CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, TWO WITH REGISTRY DIAMONDS FOR 1874, TWO WITH RETAILER'S MARKS FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, TEN WITH MONOGRAM OR SIGNATURE FOR ALBOIN BIRKS, TWO WITH MONOGRAM FOR ARTHUR MORGAN
Each finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with putti at various pursuits including steering the world with a paddle, conducting songbirds or aiming a pistol, all within valiantly shaped colored slip cartouches and a further field of gilt stars
9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.) diameter
CIRCA 1900-05, GILT PRINTED CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, TWO WITH REGISTRY DIAMONDS FOR 1874, TWO WITH RETAILER'S MARKS FOR TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, TEN WITH MONOGRAM OR SIGNATURE FOR ALBOIN BIRKS, TWO WITH MONOGRAM FOR ARTHUR MORGAN
Each finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with putti at various pursuits including steering the world with a paddle, conducting songbirds or aiming a pistol, all within valiantly shaped colored slip cartouches and a further field of gilt stars
9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Anonymous Sale; Christie’s, London, 17 November 2009, lot 261.