YEAR CYPHER FOR 1866, SHAPE 1014, IMPRESSED MARKS, PARIS RETAILER'S LABEL TO BASE

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A LARGE MINTON TURQUOISE-GROUND OVIFORM VASE AND INTEGRAL STAND
YEAR CYPHER FOR 1866, SHAPE 1014, IMPRESSED MARKS, PARIS RETAILER'S LABEL TO BASE
Of Chinese bottle form, painted in a Japonaiserie style with brightly-coloured fish amongst reeds and seaweed, the unglazed dark-brown integral stand simulating ebony, formed from a key-pattern band above three scroll beast-head supports, moulded with graduating discs, the vase suspended above a lotus head on pierced foliate C-scroll circular stepped plinth, the rope-twist footrim with three Key-pattern block feet, enriched in gilding (minor damages, chipping and repairs)
36¾ in. (93.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For an example of this distinctive form see Joan Jones's Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, (Shrewsbury, 1983, p. 89) for the design attributed to Christopher Dresser. The Chinese bottle form with integral stand was one of Dresser's designs for Minton shown at the London International Exhibition of 1862, and still in production around the time of the Paris Exhibition of 1867 and manufacture of this piece. It is highly likely that a piece of this scale and quality would have been made for exhibition.

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