"Pompeian" vase with cover (one of a pair)

Minton(s) British
 Decorator Louis Marc Emmanuel Solon French
 Retailer T. Goode British

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This vase demonstrates the wealth of ornamental motifs available to designers at industrial manufactories such as Mintons, where Solon worked for much of his career. The results were at times startlingly eclectic. On this pair of “Pompeiian vases,” the asymmetrically hung medallions evoke Japanese designs, while the delicate pink hue of the ornaments and Solon’s cameo decoration call to mind a neo-Rococo aesthetic

"Pompeian" vase with cover (one of a pair), Minton(s) (British, Stoke-on-Trent, 1793–present), Pâte-sur-pâte with gilding and enamel decoration, British, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

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