Property from a Private Canadian Collection
A Pair of Mintons Pâte-sur-Pâte Peacock-Blue-Ground Pilgrim Bottles by Louis Solon, Circa 1890
Lot Closed
October 18, 05:18 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Pair of Mintons Pâte-sur-Pâte Peacock-Blue-Ground Pilgrim Bottles by Louis Solon, Circa 1890
decorated by Marc Louis Solon, incised signed L. Solon, of flask form, with a cylindrical neck flanked by gilt enriched lug handles, decorated with either a male or female figure, standing before a ionic column pedestal supporting a small putto, the shoulder with arabesque ornament in olive-green and pale-blue slip, enriched in gilding, the foot with diaper pattern, crowned globe MINTONS ENGLAND mark in gold, impressed MINTONS mark, shape number 1348
Height 7 5/8 in.
19.5 cm
In 1890, Louis Solon produced a pâte-sur-pâte bottle, or two, of this shape (no. 1348) titled 'War and Peace', which may correspond to the present lot, reproduced in Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two-Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury 1993, p. 338.
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