Sale 1365
New York
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23 April 2004
Price realised
USD 21,510
Estimate
A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE COBALT AND PEACOCK BLUE GROUND VASE GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, MODEL NO. 2443, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON, DATE CYPHER FOR 1893 Of shield shaped, the shoulder enriched with scale-pattern, above beaded gilt lines, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with Ceres holding a spilling cornucopia of flowers, the reverse with a gilt medallion and foliate scroll 8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high
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See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Year of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 210 for a full page illustration of this model also by Solon.
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