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A MINTON PORCELAIN TURQUOISE-GROUND VASE
Lot 127

A MINTON PORCELAIN TURQUOISE-GROUND VASE

DATE CYPHER FOR 1870, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, CYPHERS AND SHAPE NO. 1470, DESIGN BY CHRISTOPHER DRESSER

Closed15 April 2011

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A MINTON PORCELAIN TURQUOISE-GROUND VASE
DATE CYPHER FOR 1870, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK, CYPHERS AND SHAPE NO. 1470, DESIGN BY CHRISTOPHER DRESSER
In the Japonism taste, of hemispheric form, finely painted with three butterflies alternating with stylized foliate scrollwork, raised on three gilt feet
5 7/8 in. (14.8 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

For a similar example identified as designed by C. Dresser, see J. Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 102.