Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Property from the Descendants of Alboin Birks
Lot 281
A fine Minton pâte-sur-pâte plate by Alboin Birks, dated 1914
11 June 2025, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£1,000 - £1,500
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Fergus Gambon
Director
A fine Minton pâte-sur-pâte plate by Alboin Birks, dated 1914
The broad border richly decorated with three panels, each painted in opaque white on a pale blue ground with classical maidens and putti engaging in various activities, including one with Cupids mixing a love potion signed 'A Birks', one of Cupids being washed in a fountain and hung out to dry, and the other with Cupids attending at the altar of Love, alternating with three further panels decorated with formal scrollwork motifs in raised gilding on a grey ground, all divided by narrow cream ground panels, the rim and cavetto with formal gilt borders, 26.1cm diam, impressed MINTONS and date cipher, printed globe mark in gold
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Provenance
Minton Museum Collection, Bonhams, 23 July 2002, lot 220
For a smaller pâte-sur-pâte plate by Alboin Birks decorated with panels depicting identical scenes, see lot 282 in this sale.