Round, flat bodied bottle (one of a pair)
ca. 1870–80
Medium
Bone china
Dimensions
Overall (.1, confirmed): 10 3/8 × 8 1/4 × 4 3/16 in. (26.4 × 21 × 10.6 cm); Overall (.2, confirmed): 10 1/8 × 7 15/16 × 4 in. (25.7 × 20.2 × 10.2 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
British, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2016
Accession Number
2016.178.2.1
About the Artist
Minton(s)|Christopher Dresser · 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. ...