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
Rights
Public Domain
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. ...