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Minton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer)
Lidded vase (1840)
porcelain (bone china)
(a-b) 45.8 × 28.5 × 24.9 cm (overall)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Dr Robert Wilson Collection. Gift of Dr Robert Wilson and Colin Lane, 2007
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Lidded vase
(1840)
Medium
porcelain (bone china)
Measurements
(a-b) 45.8 × 28.5 × 24.9 cm (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Dr Robert Wilson Collection. Gift of Dr Robert Wilson and Colin Lane, 2007
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
The nineteenth century in Europe was characterised by a series of revivals of historical ornamental styles. This lidded vase by the Minton factory is an example of the Rococo revival, which looked to the eighteenth-century French court for inspiration. As was often the case with revival styles, the individual decorative elements here are eclectic in origin. The richly gilded rocaille-form scrolls are heavily modelled, owing more to gilt-bronze mounts than eighteenth-century porcelain forms. The vase shape itself is more Baroque than Rococo in inspiration, and the colours employed for the decoration are darker and richer than an eighteenth-century Rococo palette.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
2007.695.a-b
Department
International Decorative Arts
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