A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE DARK CHOCOLATE-BROWN TWO-HANDLED VASES, 'THIEF' AND 'MENDIANT' DATED 1875, ONE SIGNED AND DATED L.(OUIS) SOLON (18)75, THE OTHER SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON, RECORDED AS SHAPE NO. 1946

A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE DARK CHOCOLATE-BROWN TWO-HANDLED VASES, 'THIEF' AND 'MENDIANT'
DATED 1875, ONE SIGNED AND DATED L.(OUIS) SOLON (18)75, THE OTHER SIGNED L.(OUIS) SOLON, RECORDED AS SHAPE NO. 1946
Oviform with tall elongated trumpet necks paneled and enriched in olive-green and iron-red, flanked by complex looped scroll handles, each finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with either a putto standing beneath a canopy holding a heart-filled basket, attended by companions with outstretched palms begging for the hearts, or with a bound putto hanging from a gallows labeled 'THIEF', with extinguished torch, empty quiver and sorrowful companions; the obverse with the same allegory personified by a nymph and a putto standing before a column; all on a socle foot and black marble square base
23 1/2 in. (60 cm.) high