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A PAIR OF MINTONS PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE GREEN AND IVORY-GROUND VASES AND COVERS CIRCA 1900, GOLD PRINTED GLOBE FACTORY MARKS, INCISED SHAPE NUMBER 1013 AND X MARK, EACH SIGNED WITH AB MONOGRAM Decorated by Alboin Birks, with green-ground oval panels of winged putti picking fruit or flowers from branches, the reverse with agricultural and musical devices within gilt-edged circular medallions 12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
Pate-sur-pate is the name given to describe the elaborate and expensive method of decorating porcelain in which thin coats of white slip are built up to create a translucent cameo-like image. The technique was developed at Sèvres in the late 1840s, where it was perfected by Marc-Louis Solon, whose magnificent and sumptuous designs are unanimously celebrated as the finest. Solon joined Minton in 1870, and pate-sur-pate was quickly established as one of the most distinguished styles of pottery decoration of the 19th century. The decorator of these vases, Alboin Birks, was apprenticed to Solon at Minton in about 1877.