Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, 'L'AMOUR EST MORT/VIVE L'AMOUR' CIRCA 1880
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October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE RECTANGULAR PLAQUE, 'L'AMOUR EST MORT/VIVE L'AMOUR' CIRCA 1880
decorated by Marc Louis Solon, incised, signed L. Solon., decorated in white slip with two figures mourning the death of a cupid on an altar, flanked on either side by cupids dancing and playing musical instruments on supports embossed L' AMOUR EST. MORT and VIVE L'AMOUR!!!, in a giltwood frame.
Plaque 15¾ x 8½ in.; Overall 22⅜ x 15 in.
40 x 21.6 cm; 56.8 x 38.2 cm
Phillips London, December 10, 1998, lot 384
Tulman, Ars Ceramica, 2016, p. 49, figs. 13