{"id":28854,"date":"2026-10-11T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Minton-603-Parian-Seasons-Figural-Centerpiece-with-Basket.jpg"},"modified":"2026-10-16T18:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:41:17","slug":"minton-603-parian-seasons-figural-centerpiece-with-basket","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/pate-sur-pate\/minton-shape-numbers\/minton-603-parian-seasons-figural-centerpiece-with-basket\/","title":{"rendered":"Minton 603 Parian Seasons Figural Centerpiece with Basket"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[8,10],"class_list":["post-28854","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry","tag-minton-parian","tag-minton-vase"],"acf":[],"description":{"rendered":"

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\nPhoto from 1851 Exibition.<\/p>\n


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\nEngraving “Objects selected from a dessert service presented by Queen Victoria to The Emperor of Austria”.<\/p>\n

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Shape Number: 603
\nThe figures designed by Pierre Emile Jeannest.
\nFactory description: Large Seasons Basket
\nFrom 1851 Queen Victoria’s turquoise dessert service.
\nThe shape number reference is from The Minton Archive.<\/p>\n

The sale to Queen Victoria at the 1851 Great Exhibition of a spectacular 116-piece turquoise-ground dessert service secured the luxury tablewares market for Minton & Co. for the following two decades. The official exhibition catalogue announced that 69 pieces of the \u2018Victoria\u2019 service, as it became known \u2013 purchased at the preview for 1,000 guineas \u2013 had been given by Her Majesty to the Emperor of Austria. Each piece was individually painted with cupids, flowers or fruit against a vibrant turquoise ground, imitating the famous bleu-c\u00e9leste of the S\u00e8vres factory.
\nIt received critical acclaim for its unique combination of glazed bone china with Parian (unglazed porcelain) statuary figures modeled by the French sculptor Pierre-Emile Jeannest (1813\u201357).
\nQueen Victoria went on to order Minton turquoise-ground services for Windsor Castle and Balmoral, influencing the purchases of England\u2019s aristocratic consumers, such as Col. Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant (1800\u201386), later 1st Baron Penrhyn, who in 1859 ordered a Victoria service for Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd. In 1864-5, the politician William Tatton Egerton (1806\u201383), created 1st Baron Egerton of Tatton in 1859, ordered a large Minton turquoise-ground dessert service with a double \u2018E\u2019 cipher under a baron\u2019s coronet.<\/p>\n


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\nA page from The Art Journal The Industry of All Nations Illustrated Catalogue 1851. <\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

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