CIRCA 1878, GILT PRINTED MINTONS MARK BELOW PRINCE OF WALES FEATHERS AND 'PARIS EXHIBITION 1878', TURQUOISE DECORATOR'S MARK

In the 1860s and 1870s the Minton factory began to produce wares that catered to the public's increasing enthusiasm for an 'exotic' style in the decorative arts, which often took inspiration from the East. Dresser began supplying Minton with designs for tablewares and ornamental pieces in the late 1860s and many of these were put into production at the factory. For another example of Asian-inspired 'cloisonné' decoration attributed to Christopher Dresser and employed on the Minton moon flask vase form (shape number 1348) see the pair in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, museum no. 2016.178.2.1.