Live Auction 6415Christie's Interiors
A MINTON FIGURAL TURQUOISE-GROUND AMPHORA VASE
Lot 392

A MINTON FIGURAL TURQUOISE-GROUND AMPHORA VASE

YEAR CYPHER FOR 1871, IMPRESSED MARK, SHAPE 1517, THE MODELLING ATTRIBUTED TO ALBERT CARRIER DE BELLEUSE, THE DECORATION TO CHRISTOPHER DRESSER

Closed17 July 2012

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GBP 1,625

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A MINTON FIGURAL TURQUOISE-GROUND AMPHORA VASE
YEAR CYPHER FOR 1871, IMPRESSED MARK, SHAPE 1517, THE MODELLING ATTRIBUTED TO ALBERT CARRIER DE BELLEUSE, THE DECORATION TO CHRISTOPHER DRESSER
Modelled as two putti shouldering a large amphora, the vase with bands of gilt-enriched key pattern, stylised flowerheads above pendants and lotus flowers
14½ in. (36.8 cm.) wide

Specialist note

For an amphora vase designed by Christopher Dresser, see Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, (Shrewsbury, 1993), p. 89.