Live Auction 15491The Collector: Silver &19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art
A MINTON PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN FLASK
Lot 555

A MINTON PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN FLASK

CIRCA 1875, FAINT GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARK, INCISED 465, SIGNED WITH AN MLS MONOGRAM FOR LOUIS SOLON

Closed24 May 2018

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GBP 7,500

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A MINTON PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN FLASK
CIRCA 1875, FAINT GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARK, INCISED 465, SIGNED WITH AN MLS MONOGRAM FOR LOUIS SOLON
Finely painted by Louis Solon and hand-tooled in white slip with a putto seated on a bough of ivy, spinning a web, the shoulder with stylised pendant flowers in polychrome slip
5 ¾ in. (14.7 cm.) high

Specialist note

In the London International Exhibition of 1871, one of the pieces receiving the highest praise was a similar little bottle by Solon with Cupid caught in a spider-web. See The Art-Journal Catalogue of The International Exhibition 1871, London, p. 59 for an engraving of this vase, now preserved in the Bowes Museum, County Durham. As Solon chose this subject for his inaugural exhibition with Minton and received critical acclaim, it is likely that it was a personal favourite.