A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE-GROUND VASES, 'TOO FAST' AND 'TOO SLOW' 1893

A PAIR OF MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PEACOCK-BLUE-GROUND VASES, 'TOO FAST' AND 'TOO SLOW' 1893

shape number 3044, decorated by Marc Louis Solon, signed L. Solon in white slip, each of baluster form with a waisted trumpet neck, applied at the shoulder with gilt-heightened handles and decorated in white slip, Too Slow, with a maiden with a fishing net amidst cherubs running and tumbling from a leafy stem, mending the net or bending lightning bolts amidst clouds, the reverse with three cherubs turning a winged wheel, and Too Fast, with a maiden whipping cherubs carrying snail shells on their backs and climbing a stem toward a heart suspended from a flowerhead, the reverse with a wreath of three cherubs emerging from snail shells holding a central heart, the necks with olive-green ground reserving scrollwork patterns, crowned globe MINTONS marks in gold, impressed MINTONS mark, date code for 1893.

Height 16 in.

40.6 cm