Bulb Vase (one of a pair)
Medium
Pâte-sur-pâte on bone china with gilding
Dimensions
9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
British, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Starr and Wolfe Families, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019
Accession Number
2019.597.8a, b
About the Artist
Minton(s)|Alboin Birks · 1793–2001
Minton is among the most distinguished names in the history of British ceramics, a firm whose two and a quarter centuries of production encompass everything from blue transfer-printed earthenwares to the most rarefied decorative porcelain of the Victorian age. The company was founded in 1793 by Thomas Minton (1765–1836) in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire — the heart of England's pottery industry. ...