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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASE EMBLEMATIC OF SUMMER
Lot 166

A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASE EMBLEMATIC OF SUMMER

DATE CYPHER FOR 1887, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2804, PARTIAL RETAILER'S LABEL FOR A.B. DANIELL & SON, LONDON, SIGNED WITH AN LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS

Closed18 April 2013

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE PEACOCK-BLUE VASE EMBLEMATIC OF SUMMER
DATE CYPHER FOR 1887, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 2804, PARTIAL RETAILER'S LABEL FOR A.B. DANIELL & SON, LONDON, SIGNED WITH AN LB MONOGRAM FOR LAWRENCE BIRKS
Of bottle form, the neck flanked by gilt pierced dragon handles, finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a scantily clad maiden perched among flowering branches, holding a flower-filled torchère and with bagpipes at her side, the reverse with a putto in flight scattering roses beneath birds in flight, on a gilt starred ground, the neck and foot enriched with gilt bands
19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

See B. Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, London, 1992, p. 141, fig. 103 for a companion vase depicting 'Winter'. For the companion model see, Sotheby's, New York, 18, 19 and 20 June 1981, lot 175. See J. Jones, Minton, Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 194-5 for a loop-handled vase (shape no. 1722) with a variation of the present subject. Also note on p. 194 a pair of similarly conceived vases executed by Solon.