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Property from the Descendants of Alboin Birks
Lot 280

A fine Minton pâte-sur-pâte plaque by Alboin Birks, late 19th century

11 June 2025, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£800 - £1,200

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A fine Minton pâte-sur-pâte plaque by Alboin Birks, late 19th century

Of circular form, reserved with an octagonal panel painted in opaque white with a winged Cupid sealed before a tall smoking candelabrum, picking hearts out of a basket and throwing them over his shoulder, signed 'A Birks', within a formal raised gilt border, all reserved on a dark brown ground, mounted in a later giltwood frame, plaque 9cm diam

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

This plaque is undoubtedly influenced by the work of Marc Louis Solon, for whom Cupids were a favourite subject and who delighted in depicting the pranks Cupid played with hearts and maidens. A pâte-sur-pâte moon flask by Solon with a very similar subject was sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2023, lot 516.

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