A Mintons Pâte-sur-Pâte two-handled vase last quarter 19th century

decorated by Henry Hollins, signed Hollins, in white on the front with a panel of a female warrior and on the reverse with a panel of a cherub, reserved on a blue-tinted body finely decorated with white grotesques, between pale blue, cobalt and olive green ground, patterned borders at the neck and foot, now drilled and mounted as a lamp, on an ebonized wood base.  Crack to neck.

Overall in good condition with light marks to the surface. Repair to the rim.
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Henry Hollins was apprenticed to Louis Solon in 1873.  A pair of vases of this shape is illustrated by Joan Jones, Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, p. 193.