DECORATED BY AARON GREEN FOR MINTON, 1878

Details

An exceptionally large glazed pottery vase
Decorated by Aaron Green for Minton, 1878
In Japanese style, of baluster form on a rectangular openworked plinth, the white ground painted with various panels with a reading woman in an interior set in a fan, a Samurai warrior in a rectangle, birds, plants and fishes, in blue and ochre on a white ground
105cm. high
Impressed marks Minton's and yearmark for 1878
See illustration

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Reflections: Japan and Japonism, 19
May/17 September 2000

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Lot Essay

Most likely this vase was designed for the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris. The inventory report of the Minton contribution for the Exposition includes a porcelain vase decorated by Aaron Green with the same form and decoration (see ill.). The vase, together with the other exhibited objects, would have been purchased directly after the Exposition Universelle by Thomas Goode and exposed in his showrooms in London and Melbourne during the following years. In 1979 Goode sold the vase to a Dutch buyer who sold it at auction to the present owner in 1992.

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