3739700 Detail from a pair of vases, \'Les alteres y les frileux\', 1879 (olive-brown pate-sur-pate) by Mintons Ltd (fl.1793-1873); height: 42.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Signed and dated 1879, the bases with gilt Prince of Wales feather mark for the 1878 Paris Universelle Exposition and impressed uppercase marks, impressed shape no. 1937 to both vases and stands, both signed L.(ouis) Solon 79. Each of baluster form, the flaring trumpet neck flanked by gilt and platinum enriched rope-twist handles with bearded Bacchic head terminals, finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with putti gathering round altars, either filling their amphorae with wine or warming themselves by the heat of the fire, the obverse with either a tree littered with upturned amphorae or putti huddled by a brazier, the neck and lower-body with stylized floral forms in polychrome slip.); Photo by Christie\'s Images; English, out of copyright.