Vase with Rush Handles.
Shape Number: 580
Height: 21.8 cm
Originally designed by the painter and writer Richard Redgrave (1804-1888), later Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures. It was one of the designs made for Felix Summerly’s Art Manufactures and is an example of early Victorian design especially promoted by Henry Cole (1808-1882), in which the decoration describes the function of the object.

Shape drawing from The Minton Archive.