Lot 44
  • 44

A pair of Mintons pâte-sur-pâte vases and covers: "Carpet" 1900

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • height 10 3/8 in.
  • 26.2 cm
each decorated in white on a brown ground, by Marc Louis Solon, signed L. Solon, on one on the front with a young boy laying down a carpet and on the reverse with a heart tied within a wreath above a column, and on the other on the front with a young girl stepping across flowers strewn on the ground, and on the reverse with a signpost, gilt printed factory mark, year cypher and incised shape number 3257.

Condition

Good Condition
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Catalogue Note

A pair of vases of this form, decorated in 1900, is listed by Joan Jones, Minton: The First Two-Hundred Years of Design and Production, p. 339, in her list of titled pâte-sur-pâte ornamental ware by Solon, under the title 'Carpet'.