A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED PILGRIM BOTTLES EMBLEMATIC OF 'WATER' AND 'EARTH'
Circa 1875, gilt crowned globes and impressed uppercase mark, gilt H to one and gilt & to the other
Each of flattened circular form with lug handles, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip after Boucher with putti either frolicking among waves and dolphin or slumbering among grapes, beside another with a basket, within a ribbon-tied surround decorated in polychrome pâte-sur-pâte with berried laurel, the reverse with either a fishing or a gardening trophy, respectively
10in. (26.7cm.) high (2)
A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED PILGRIM BOTTLES EMBLEMATIC OF 'WATER' AND 'EARTH'
Circa 1875, gilt crowned globes and impressed uppercase mark, gilt H to one and gilt & to the other
Each of flattened circular form with lug handles, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip after Boucher with putti either frolicking among waves and dolphin or slumbering among grapes, beside another with a basket, within a ribbon-tied surround decorated in polychrome pâte-sur-pâte with berried laurel, the reverse with either a fishing or a gardening trophy, respectively
10in. (26.7cm.) high (2)
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