拍品 386
386
A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE SALMON AND CHOCOLATE-BROWN TWO-HANDLED VASES, 'HOSTESS AND TRAVELLER'
PROPERTY OF A LADY 
A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE SALMON AND CHOCOLATE-BROWN TWO-HANDLED VASES, 'HOSTESS AND TRAVELLER'

SIGNED AND DATED L.(OUIS) SOLON MINTONS 1877 AND L.(OUIS) SOLON 77, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1722

细节
A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE SALMON AND CHOCOLATE-BROWN TWO-HANDLED VASES, 'HOSTESS AND TRAVELLER'
SIGNED AND DATED L.(OUIS) SOLON MINTONS 1877 AND L.(OUIS) SOLON 77, GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1722
Each cylindrical neck decorated in polychrome pâte-sur-pâte with opposing winged fantastic beasts, flanked by strap loop handles and rosette terminals, the shoulder enriched with faux flutes and dart-pattern bands, the body finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a either a maiden and putti preparing a meal or with a young man and putti preparing for a journey, the lower section with stylized flowers and stiff-leaf tips, on a stepped circular foot
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 210 for a single pâte-sur-pâte vase of this form and p. 197 for another with a similarly decorated neck. Also compare anon. sale, Christie's, New York 20-21 April 2005, lot 138.