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Brush pot

Ref: 1786
  • Designer / Maker

    Designed by Christopher Dresser (1834-1904)

    Manufactured by Minton (1796-1968)

  • Detail

    Bone china, with enamelled decoration and gilding

    8.75 x 14.75 cm (diameter)

    English (Stoke-on-Trent), circa 1870

  • Marked

    ‘MINTON’ ‘147’ (lightly impressed under base), together with three small circles

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • Notes

    For a brush pot of this form, with different ‘cloisonné’ decoration, see Joan Jones, Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, 1993, p. 102.  For other uses of butterflies on Minton ceramics, see Michael Whiteway, Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, 2001, figs 17 and 18 (including a watercolour design).