Shape Number: 467
Height: 27cm

This vase and cover reflect the ever popular taste taste for 18th-century French porcelain, especially that made by the royal factory at Sèvres, near Paris. The style of flower painting, the turquoise blue and the gilding all imitate French porcelain.The vase could have been used to contain rose petals or pot pourri: the pierced leaf-shapes below the vase rim would have allowed the scent to circulate.

Although clearly of superb quality, both in the brilliantly white bone china and the fine painting, this vase and cover were less expensive to buy than the 18th-century French Sèvres porcelain they copy. With this classical ovoid form and pretty decoration, Minton’s were meeting the ambitions of the newly wealthy for the genuinely ‘old French’ furnishings of the rich.

The design drawing is from The Minton Archive.