TWELVE MINTONS DESSERT-PLATES, the borders reserved with three grey-ground fan-shaped cartouches painted by Richard Bradbury in white pâte-sur-pâte with mythological figures at playful pursuits, including a seated maiden with three cherubs tied by thread to a cage, a seated maiden holding threads tied to two cherubs lighting sacrifical lamps, and two maidens playing the tambourine and the cymbals, the cartouches divided by three smaller shaped-rectangular cartouches enclosing flowers and leaves within chains of gilt scrolls and husks, within seeded gilt borders (four plates cracked), artists' signatures or mongrams, impressed and printed gilt marks, Tiffany & Co., New York retailer's marks, pattern number H3696/T, circa 1930 (12)

细节

TWELVE MINTONS DESSERT-PLATES, the borders reserved with three grey-ground fan-shaped cartouches painted by Richard Bradbury in white pâte-sur-pâte with mythological figures at playful pursuits, including a seated maiden with three cherubs tied by thread to a cage, a seated maiden holding threads tied to two cherubs lighting sacrifical lamps, and two maidens playing the tambourine and the cymbals, the cartouches divided by three smaller shaped-rectangular cartouches enclosing flowers and leaves within chains of gilt scrolls and husks, within seeded gilt borders (four plates cracked), artists' signatures or mongrams, impressed and printed gilt marks, Tiffany & Co., New York retailer's marks, pattern number H3696/T, circa 1930 (12)

拍品专文

Richard Bradbury worked at the factory from 1927 to 1939, painting in pâte-sur-pâte and also modelling figures in bone china