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Pair of moon flasks

MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer), John MOYR SMITH (designer)
Pair of moon flasks
 (c. 1880)

Medium
porcelain (bone china)

Measurements
(a) 16.9 × 15.9 × 6.7 cm (moon flask)
(b) 17.1 × 16.1 × 7.0 cm (moon flask)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Peter and Ivanka Canet through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2019

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England

Inscription
(a) impressed (vertically) in base c.: 1803
impressed in base c.: MINTONS / I (…illeg.) (in a circle)
(b) impressed in base c: (…illeg.) (in a circle) / MINTONS
impressed (vertically) in base c.: 180(…illeg.)

Accession Number
2019.1105

Department
International Decorative Arts

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