Each painted and hand-tooled in white slip with an oval medallion of a maiden and putto, a wide pale-blue band of foliate scrollwork to the center, the neck molded with a beaded collar and the lower body with stiff-leaf tips, comprising a vase and cover flanked by beaded upright loop handles and a pair of 'Pembroke' ewers with berried laurel handles terminating in gilt satyr mask terminals
13¹⁄₄ in. (33.6 cm.) high, the vase; 11¹⁄₈ in. (28.2 cm.) high, the ewers

Minton Pâte-sur-Pâte Masterworks from a Distinguished Private Collection; Christie's, New York, 21 October 2008, lot 21.

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See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-pâte, London, 1992, p. 144., fig. 108 for a similar garniture. Also see Geoffrey Godden, Staffordshire Porcelain, London, 1983, p. 331, fig. 507 and color pl. XIX for a documentary photograph of Léon Arnoux, Minton's French Art Directory, in his studio holding a similar ewer.