Vase with "cloisonné" decoration (one of a pair)
ca. 1870
Medium
Bone china
Dimensions
(.1) confirmed: 12 9/16 × 8 7/16 × 8 7/16 in., 4.6 lb. (31.9 × 21.4 × 21.4 cm, 2.1 kg) (.2) confirmed: 12 7/16 × 8 7/16 × 8 7/16 in. (31.6 × 21.4 × 21.4 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
The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 2015
Accession Number
2015.124.1
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. ...