Vase
ca. 1867
Medium
Bone china
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 9 7/8 × 5 7/8 × 5 9/16 in. (25.1 × 14.9 × 14.1 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
2016.178.1
Tags
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. ...