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For your consideration, a hand - painted very large 19 century English bone china pitcher.
Made by Minton c1865
Elegant …
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For your consideration, a hand - painted very large 19 century English bone china pitcher.
Made by Minton c1865
Elegant form with a hand painted Aesthetic Movement design with chinoiserie flourishes
inspired by Asia art with a temple alter with urns and vases and beautiful lotus and dogwood patterns.
In superb condition just a bit of wear on the bottom nothing Significant.
Measures 12 inches tall by 10 inches in diameter
Beautifully crafted and elegantly stylized
Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, design, fashion and the arts over their functions. According to Aestheticism, art should be produced to be beautiful, rather than to teach a lesson, create a parallel, or perform another didactic purpose, a sentiment best illustrated by the slogan "art for art's sake." Aestheticism flourished in the 1870s and 1880s, gaining prominence and the support of notable writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde...Bone china is a type of vitreous, translucent pottery,the raw materials for which include bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin. It has been defined as "ware with a translucent body" containing a minimum of 30% of phosphate derived from calcined animal bone or calcium phosphate.[ Bone china is amongst the strongest of whiteware ceramics, and is known for its high levels of whiteness and translucency. Its high strength allows it to be produced in thinner cross-sections than other types of whiteware. Like stoneware, it is vitrified, but is translucent due to differing mineral properties.
In the mid-18th century, English potters had not succeeded in making hard-paste porcelain (as made in East Asia and Meissen porcelain), but found bone ash a useful addition to their soft-paste porcelain mixtures. This became standard at the Bow porcelain factory in London (operating from around 1747), and spread to some other English factories. The modern product was developed by the Staffordshire potter Josiah Spode in the early 1790s. Spode included kaolin, so his formula, sometimes called "Staffordshire bone-porcelain", was effectively hard-paste, but stronger, and versions were adopted by all the major English factories by around 1815,Minton being one of the best ever produced
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- Dimensions
- 10ʺW × 10ʺD × 12ʺH
- Brand
- Minton
- Period
- Mid 19th Century
- Country of Origin
- United Kingdom
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Bone China
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Blue
- Condition Notes
- Superb Slight wear and age Superb Slight wear and age less
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