A PAIR OF MINTONS PORCELAIN TURQUOISE-GROUND 'DRAGON' VASES ON STANDS
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A PAIR OF MINTONS PORCELAIN TURQUOISE-GROUND 'DRAGON' VASES ON STANDS

DATE CYPHER FOR 1874, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, SHAPE NO. 1841 AND DATE CYPHER

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PORCELAIN TURQUOISE-GROUND 'DRAGON' VASES ON STANDS
DATE CYPHER FOR 1874, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, SHAPE NO. 1841 AND DATE CYPHER
In the Japonisme taste, each tall bottle vase with a dragon wrapped around its neck between bands of stiff-leaf tips, ogival lapets painted with lotus and key pattern, on pierced stands
19 3⁄8 in. (49.2 cm.) high

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Shape no. 1841 is recorded as 'Vase with Dragon, Pierced Base'. See J. Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 356.