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Lot 411*

A fine French pâte-sur-pâte plaque by Louis Solon, circa 1865-69

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A fine French pâte-sur-pâte plaque by Louis Solon, circa 1865-69

Of upright rectangular form, decorated in pâte-sur-pâte onto the brown ground with Cupid emerging from a cage, a semi naked figure of Venus standing beside him with her right arm raised, signed Miles, gilded bamboo around them, 31cm x 18cm (flaw to one corner probably during the manufacture)

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Marc Louis Solon used the pseudonym 'Miles' (as it contained his three initials) on pieces made for the retailer Eugène Rousseau. Rousseau paid for Solon to trial the pâte-sur-pâte technique using porcelain blanks supplied by the Parisian maker Alphonse-Marx Clauss. A related pair of plaques was sold by Bonhams, 12 November 2014, lot 152, one bearing the mark 'E Rousseau, 41 rue Coquilliere 4 1'. The present lot may have been included with the group of plaques brought to England by Solon and sold after he joined Minton. See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte (1992), p.52

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