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An impressive Minton pâte-sur-pâte vase and cover by Alboin Birks, circa 1910 image 1
An impressive Minton pâte-sur-pâte vase and cover by Alboin Birks, circa 1910 image 2
An impressive Minton pâte-sur-pâte vase and cover by Alboin Birks, circa 1910 image 3
Property from the Descendants of Alboin Birks
Lot 284

An impressive Minton pâte-sur-pâte vase and cover by Alboin Birks, circa 1910

11 June 2025, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,480 inc. premium

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An impressive Minton pâte-sur-pâte vase and cover by Alboin Birks, circa 1910

Of slender shield shape, the two wreath handles with delicately modelled ribbon terminals picked out in gold, reserved with a shaped rectangular peacock-blue panel to each side, one finely painted in opaque white with a semi-nude nymph in flight, wearing winged sandals, attended by two winged Cupids, against a sky set with stars, signed 'A Birks', the other with a formal arrangement of roses, foliage and arrows suspended from tied ribbons, the sides with rectangular panels decorated with a formal border of masks, cornucopias and scrollwork on a pale blue ground, the cream-coloured vase and domed cover with scale ornament and classical borders in raised gold, 41cm high, printed globe mark and NP1257 in gold, indistinct impressed date cipher and incised shape no.1013 (2)

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Provenance
Alboin Birks and thence by family descent to the present owners

Minton opened a separate account book for pâte-sur-pâte vases in June 1871 in which every entry was numbered, the first denoted as NP1 and the last entry for pâte-sur-pâte listed as NP1434, with 'NP' or 'New Pattern' mark indicating new and trial wares. The present vase is number NP1257. A similar vase was sold by Christie's New York on 25 October 2007, lot 550.

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