Lot 171: A MINTONS CERAMIC CHARGER

Date cypher for 1871, black painted and impressed uppercase marks, impressed Y, O, 12 and 28, signed MLS '72 for Louis Marc Solon, 1872 Finely painted with a celestial view of the sublime Artemis standing before a tree ensnaring putti in a net, one captured putto tucked in a satchel at her side, a blue drape at her hip 11 7/8in. (30.2cm.) diam. NOTES This freely painted example is a rarity among Solon's masterpieces. One other is recorded in the seminal exhibition catalogue produced by The Victorian & Albert Museum and Thomas Goode & Co. Ltd., Minton 1798-1910, London 1976, K21. Here listed is a circular earthenware plate painted with a portrait of a baby inscribed PETIT LEON AVRIL 72. This early portrait of his son is similarly signed and dated on the reverse and labelled in French as a gift to his dear sisters - City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke (28 P 51).