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U-shaped vase with handle (one of a pair) by Minton(s)

U-shaped vase with handle (one of a pair)

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Artist
Minton(s)
Date
1869
Medium
Bone china
Dimensions
confirmed: 6 3/8 × 6 1/4 × 3 3/4 in., 15.872oz. (16.2 × 15.9 × 9.5 cm, 450g)
Culture
British, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Gallery
516
Location
516
Credit
Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017

Description

Overview U-shaped vase with handle (one of a pair) Minton(s) British 1869 Not on view Minton was the most important ceramics factory during the Victorian period and began exhibiting products at the first Great Exhibition of 1851. Founded in 1793 by Thomas Minton at Stoke-on-Trent, the firm initially specialized in transferware pottery before expanding under the ownership of Thomas’s son Herbert Minton, beginning in 1836. Under the ownership of Colin Minton Campbell, who succeeded his uncle in 1858, the factory became recognized as a specialist producer of Aesthetics movement porcelain, which were inspired by a rich array of exotic and eclectic decorative motifs. View more