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A superb late-19th-century English Aesthetic Movement porcelain vase by Minton, featuring a dramatic mottled cobalt-blue ground lavishly decorated with gilt birds in flight, butterflies, and flowering branches.
This striking vase exemplifies the Aesthetic Movement’s fascination with nature, asymmetry, and Japanese-influenced decorative motifs, rendered here in rich cobalt glaze with finely detailed raised gilding. The globular body with elegant loop handles and gilded rim and foot creates a powerful sculptural presence, ideal for display.
The decoration is entirely hand-applied, combining incised and raised gilding with delicate grisaille insect motifs — a level of workmanship associated with Minton’s higher-grade decorative wares of the late Victorian period.
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Details
• Maker: Minton, England
• Period: Late 19th century, c. 1885–1905
• Movement: Aesthetic Movement
• Height: 9 inches
• Form / Shape No.: 1348 (impressed)
• Material: Glazed porcelain with gilt decoration
• Decoration: Birds, butterflies, blossoms on mottled cobalt ground
• Markings: Impressed Minton mark and shape number to base
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Condition
Very good condition overall with no damage observed
