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A PAIR OF MINTONS '1888 EXPOSITION' PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN AND IVORY GROUND POMPEIIAN VASES AND COVERS
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A PAIR OF MINTONS '1888 EXPOSITION' PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN AND IVORY GROUND POMPEIIAN VASES AND COVERS

COMPLETED JUNE 1888, IMPRESSED DATE CYPHER POSSIBLY FOR 1869, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, RECORDED AS SHAPED NO. 1775 AND PATTERN NO. NP798

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A PAIR OF MINTONS '1888 EXPOSITION' PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN AND IVORY GROUND POMPEIIAN VASES AND COVERS
COMPLETED JUNE 1888, IMPRESSED DATE CYPHER POSSIBLY FOR 1869, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, RECORDED AS SHAPED NO. 1775 AND PATTERN NO. NP798
Of Classical form, the gilt enriched tubular handles rising from the shoulder, each finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a panel of paired figures flanking a flaming altar within a key-pattern surround, the sides with columns surrounded by elaborate arabesque scrollwork enclosing and grotteschi, the reverse with panels of either a maiden and sacrificial lamb or a centaur, the flat knopped covers and spreading socle enriched with radiating salmon and gilt flutes
15 in. (38 cm.) high (4)

Thomas Goode & Co. Ltd., London (paper labels).

Specialist note

The present pair of vases was shown at the Paris Universelle Exposition of 1889. Two retailer represented Mintons at this event and based on the provenance trail it is likely that this pair was displayed by Thomas Goode & Co. at that time. On the strength of Thomas Goode's display, Minton was awarded the Grand Prize, winning great acclaim for the factory and for the artists who participated.

According to B. Bumpus, op. cit, p. 129, the present pair is recorded in the Minton Estimate Book as completed in June 1888 by unidentified pâte-sur-pâte apprentices; however in the Minton Vases 1999 Calendar published by Mintons the caption identifies the work as Louis Solon, 1888. Solon's Illustrated Journal documents designs for only five pairs of vases of this form, all executed between 1871 and 1874.