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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK FAMILY COLLECTION

A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE TEAL PILGRIM FLASK AND COVER ON FIXED STAND, 'THE LESSON'

DATE CYPHER FOR 1895, GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARK, INDISTINCT INCISED SHAPE NO. 2861 AND MINTON, SIGNED L(OUIS) SOLON, GILT RETAILER'S MARK FOR GILMAN COLLAMORE & CO., NEW YORK

Name: A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE TEAL PILGRIM FLASK AND COVER ON FIXED STAND, 'THE LESSON'
Brand: DATE CYPHER FOR 1895, GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARK, INDISTINCT INCISED SHAPE NO. 2861 AND MINTON, SIGNED L(OUIS) SOLON, GILT RETAILER'S MARK FOR GILMAN COLLAMORE & CO., NEW YORK
Price: 22000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 27,720

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A MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE TEAL PILGRIM FLASK AND COVER ON FIXED STAND, 'THE LESSON'

DATE CYPHER FOR 1895, GILT CROWNED GLOBE MARK, INDISTINCT INCISED SHAPE NO. 2861 AND MINTON, SIGNED L(OUIS) SOLON, GILT RETAILER'S MARK FOR GILMAN COLLAMORE & CO., NEW YORK

Price Realised USD 27,720

Finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a maiden in a diaphanous gown, seated in a klismos chair and teaching a winged putto to read from a large codex, the reverse with an inkwell and quill wreathed in laurel and above a palm, surrounded by tomes and book-leaves, on a fixed and pierced gilt stand
9⁷⁄₈ in. (25.1 cm.) high, overall

Dr. John Pixley Munn (1846-1931), medical examiner and later president of United States Life Insurance Co., New York;
by descent to Dr. Aristine Pixley Munn Recht (1887-1952), Dean of Women, Washington Square College (New York University);
by descent to Dr. John Munn Recht (1916-2002);
thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

A sketch in Solon's illustrated journal that dates between 11 January 1895 and 11 February 1895 appears to correspond with the present vase. Solon captions it as "une bouteille chinoise Vert bl., La lesson."