Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection

Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE-GROUND VASES, 'BREWING MISCHIEF' AND 'EXPLOSION' CIRCA 1883

Auction Closed

October 23, 06:38 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE-GROUND VASES, 'BREWING MISCHIEF' AND 'EXPLOSION' CIRCA 1883


shape number 1937, decorated by Marc Louis Solon, each signed L. Solon in white slip, of baluster form with a waisted trumpet neck, applied at the shoulder with gilt, blue and platinum enriched rope-twist handles with Bacchus mask terminals, each decorated in white slip with a large cartouche of cherubs, one with seven cherubs stirring a steaming cauldron, the reverse with two emptying hearts into a basket; the other vase with the cherubs tossed in the air by an exploding cauldron, the reverse with two lighting a bomb, the shoulder and foot of each with a pale olive-green ground reserving fine blue and beige slip anthemion scrollwork and grotesques, crowned globe Mintons marks in gold.

Heights 16 in.

40.1 cm


Likely purchased by London retailers Phillips in 1883

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. New York, October 26, 1977, lot 109

Bumpus, 1992, pp. 121-123, pls. 81-82

Bumpus, 1999 catalogue, p. 18, fig. 9, 'Explosion' vase illustrated

Tulman, Ars Ceramica, 2016, p. 49, fig. 14

Ars Ceramica, 2019, cover