A PAIR OF MINTONS PALE-BLUE AND GOLD GROUND EXHIBITION VASES

DATE CYPHERS FOR 1877, PRINTED PURPLE SPECIAL PARIS EXHIBITION AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, SHAPE NO. 1653, VARIOUS CYPHERS, GILT BY DUTTON AND POWNER, SIGNED A(ARON) GREEN.1878

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PALE-BLUE AND GOLD GROUND EXHIBITION VASES
Date cyphers for 1877, printed purple special Paris Exhibition and impressed uppercase marks, shape no. 1653, various cyphers, gilt by Dutton and Powner, signed A(aron) Green.1878
Each of baluster form with tubular handles, finely painted front and back with Grecian friezes after designs by John Moyr Smith, titled lower right 'Pyrrhic.Dance.', 'A.Lydian.Ditty.', 'Caryatic.Dance.' and 'A.Phrygian.Chant.', respectively, flanked by morphological cross-sections of anthemion attributed to Christopher Dresser, the shoulder with similar anthemion alternating with gilt lotus, the lower section with Egyptian style peacock feathers alternating with stiff arrow-head leaf-tips, tapering to bands of lappets, the flaring neck and socle gilt with scale and faux gadroons
20 5/8in. (52.5cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

This pair of vases was designed for and exhibited at the 1878 Exhibition Universal, Paris.

Cf. Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years Of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, pp. 108, 227-229, 317-318 for an extensive discussion of the design sources and payment records for the original works. Although the design record for these vases is quite complete, at the time of Minton's Bicentenary, the existence of these vases was unknown.

John Moyr Smith was an architect and designer working for Mintons circa 1872-1889. Dr. Christopher Dresser was a botanist and designer who collaborated with the studios at Mintons from about 1865.