A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASES
CIRCA 1895, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2443, GILT 16.1.95 k, BOTH SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Oviform, the shoulder enriched with gilt-scale pattern, each finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a putto either standing and holding a scythe and a rose stem or tearfully sacrificing a butterfly at an altar, reserved on a powder-gilt ground, the base edged with egg-and-dart pattern
5 7/8 in. (14.8 cm.) high (2)
A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASES
CIRCA 1895, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2443, GILT 16.1.95 k, BOTH SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Oviform, the shoulder enriched with gilt-scale pattern, each finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a putto either standing and holding a scythe and a rose stem or tearfully sacrificing a butterfly at an altar, reserved on a powder-gilt ground, the base edged with egg-and-dart pattern
5 7/8 in. (14.8 cm.) high (2)