Description
A fine Minton's Secessionist exhibition twelve tile panel by Leon Victor Solon, painted with an Art Nouveau maiden , wearing elaborate gown, smelling the perfume of a white lily flower, before trees on a riverbank, tubelined detail, glazed in colours and highlighted in gilt, mounted on board, minor glaze chips 123 x 41cm.
This design by Leon Victor Solon is believed to be based on a poster design by Alphonse Mucha.
Provenance
Private collection
Literature
Paul Atterbury & Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, Antique Collector's Club, page 222 for an illustration of the Minton stand circa 1905 with this panel design displayed. Also a detail of this design illustrated as a single tile by Solon, page 303.
