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A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASES, 'ARROWS'
Lot 164 PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK FAMILY

A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASES, 'ARROWS'

IMPRESSED DATE CYPHER FOR 1898, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, SHAPE NO. 3257, GILT 10.2.99, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON

Closed18 April 2013

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASES, 'ARROWS'
IMPRESSED DATE CYPHER FOR 1898, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, SHAPE NO. 3257, GILT 10.2.99, SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON
Shield-shaped, flanked by gilt enriched acanthus handles, one finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with Cupid throwing arrows; the other with Minerva shielding herself from his aim, the reverse, neck and socle enriched with stylized flowers
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

See J. Jones, Minton, Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 339 for a listing of the 'Titled Pâte-sur-pâte Ornamental Wares by Solon', including an 1898 entry for a pair of vases of this form titled 'Arrows'.