Cylindrical shape with long neck, flaring mouth and flaring cylindrical foot; two applied, gilt handles on neck, modelled as prunus branches; grey ground decorated with flying cranes in low relief in white slip, and with gilt oriental and arabesque designs with some touches of black.

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Vase (England), 1871-1875

This is a Vase. It was attributed to Christopher Dresser. It is dated 1871-1875 and we acquired it in 1990. Its medium is gilt porcelain, pâte-sur-pâte decoration. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Minton’s Art Pottery Studio was established in Kensington Gore, London, where Christopher Dresser and other notable Aesthetic Movement artists painted Mintons’ pottery and tiles by hand. Dresser served as an advisor to Minton & Co./Mintons from the early 1860s by which time the factory’s design studio possessed books of Japanese prints of flowers and birds.

It is credited Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.

Most of a Ming dynasty First Rank square showing a pair of cranes with spread wings arched across a gold sky filled with brightly colored attenuated cloud streamers. Birds are white with gray and black lower wing feathers and throats, vermillion crests, and beak, feet and eye details in black and pale green. Cloud bands are white with shades of blue, pale green, yellow and vermillion on a gold metallic ground.

Rank Badge (buzi) (China), Ming dynasty 1368–1644
silk, gilded paper.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-433

Platter, ca. 1872
glazed earthenware.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Newlin.
2006-28-1

Katagami, Cherry Blossoms and Birds, late 19th–early 20th century
cut mulberry paper treated with persimmon tannin and silk thread.
Gift of Helen Snyder.
1976-103-135

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 57 x 23.5 cm (22 7/16 x 9 1/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Vase (England), 1871-1875; Attributed to Christopher Dresser (British, 1834–1904); gilt porcelain, pâte-sur-pâte decoration; H x diam.: 57 x 23.5 cm (22 7/16 x 9 1/4 in.); Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund; 1990-127-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Passion for the Exotic: Japonism.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Dvev/
Accession Number 1990-127-1
Object ID 18633979