Pr. 19c Mintons Porcelain "Louis XVI Sevres Style" Blue Nouveau Ground Vases
About the Item
- Creator:Minton (Manufacturer)
- Similar to:Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)Width: 9 in (22.86 cm)Depth: 6.5 in (16.51 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 2
- Style:Louis XVI (In the Style Of)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:1850
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU919521375802
Minton
Pottery is one of the oldest decorative art forms, and Minton is one of its historical masters. For more than 250 years, the English company was a premier producer of porcelain and ceramic wares. Its factory was known for detailed and brightly colored Victorian tableware, including dinner plates and serving pieces.
Thomas Minton founded the Minton factory in 1793 in Stoke-upon-Trent, England. It initially made earthenware but introduced bone china in 1798. When Minton died in 1836, the company passed to his son, Herbert Minton. The younger Minton was a savvy businessman with an eye for design. He introduced glossy majolica earthenware to the factory’s repertoire and hired skilled artists and designers like Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, boosting the company’s reputation.
In 1851, Minton debuted its majolica at the Great Exhibition in London. It became a royal family favorite and was even used to tile the Royal Dairy at Windsor Home Park. Minton majolica was also displayed on the monumental Saint George and the dragon fountain at the 1862 London International Exhibition.
Colin Minton Campbell, a nephew of Herbert Minton, took over the family business in 1858. He led the company to the head of the 1870s English art pottery movement. In the 1890s, French porcelain artist Marc-Louis Solon helped modernize Minton with his Art Nouveau designs.
Minton ceased operating as an independent company when it merged with Royal Doulton Tableware Ltd. in 1968. It was the end of an era, but not the end of widespread appreciation for Minton ceramics.
In 1982, the ”English Majolica” exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum featured 75 Minton pieces. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its British Galleries in 2020, it included a display of three colorful Minton majolica bird sculptures. Minton pottery was also on display from September 2021 to January 2022, along with other English pottery, at the Bard Graduate Center’s ”Majolica Mania” exhibition.
On 1stDibs, find exquisite Minton serveware, decorative objects, wall decorations and more.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: New York, NY
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 1 day of delivery.
- Pr Ormolu Mtd French Sevres Biscuit & Porcelain Cobalt Blue Ground Seasons VasesBy Manufacture Nationale de SèvresLocated in New York, NYAn elaborate and monumental pair of 19th century Ormolu Mounted French Sevres Porcelain and biscuit porcelain cobalt blue ground "Four Seasons" vases. This pair of vases are extremel...Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Vases
MaterialsBronze
- Beautiful Pair of French Louis XVI Sevres Cobalt Blue Porcelain and Ormolu VasesBy Manufacture Nationale de SèvresLocated in New York, NYA beautiful pair of 19th century French Louis XVI style Sevres cobalt blue and ormolu-mounted vases with rams heads and wreaths. The porcelain body is beautifully painted with the signature Sevres Royal cobalt blue. The square shaped base is decorated with ormolu acanthus leaves and ribbon wreaths beautifully hand chizzeled and detailed ormolu work. These vases can easily be turned into a fabulous pair of...Category
Antique 1840s French Louis XVI Vases
MaterialsBronze
- Monumental Sèvres Porcelain Blue Lapis VaseBy Manufacture Nationale de SèvresLocated in New York, NYA monumental palace size Sèvres Porcelain blue lapis painted vase. Beautifully hand-painted to imitate natural Lapis Lazuli stone. Hand-painted in R...Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Porcelain
MaterialsBronze
- Pair of Empire Period Sèvres Porcelain Pale Blue and Faux Porphyry Ground VasesBy Manufacture Nationale de SèvresLocated in New York, NYA very unusual and quite large pair of Empire period Sèvres Porcelain pale Celeste blue and faux porphyry ground vases. Each vase is intricately hand painted with meticulous detail and further adorned with 24-karat hand painted gilt decoration. The bases are a very unusual hand painted faux porphyry porcelain. Each vase and base is marked with various pressnumera and Sèvres signs...Category
Antique Early 1800s French Empire Vases
MaterialsPorcelain
- Antique French 19th C Pink Ground Sevres Style 3-Piece Pot-Pourri/Candelabra SetBy Manufacture Nationale de SèvresLocated in New York, NYAn extraordinary and fantastic quality antique French Louis XVI style and sevres style pink ground three piece pot-pourri and four arm candelabra garniture set. This unusual and quit...Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Garniture
MaterialsPorcelain
- Pr. 19th Century Russian Cobalt Blue & Gold Ground Swan Handle Porcelain VasesLocated in New York, NYA fantastic quality pair of Russian Empire cobalt blue and gold ground swan handle porcelain vases. Each piece is of Amphora form with a gorgeous 24K gold matted, burnished, and shiny front and backside decoration. The front panels consist of a young girl and a young boy, where the young girl is seen holding food on her head with a water pale in her hand walking through the town, while the boy is seen holding a basket of fruit up and walking it back home. The reverse of each of the vases is also elaborately decorated with one of the scenes being a comfy home with a beautiful woody landscape with a deer running through the backyard, while the other vase has a gorgeous landscape scene with a man riding a horse in the background. On either side of the vases are two-tone matte and burnished 24K gold swan form handles. Underneath the handles are 24K gold hand-painted decorations over a cobalt blue ground. The body runs down a waisted gold neck onto a rounded base which sits on a square gold plinth...Category
Antique 1810s Russian Empire Vases
MaterialsPorcelain
- Minton Porcelain Centre Piece, Mazarine Blue with Gilt, Sèvres Style, 1862-1870By MintonLocated in London, GBOn offer is a sublime and very rare centre piece made by Minton between 1862 and 1870, which was the Victorian era. The centre piece is made in the Sèvres style and decorated in a mazarine or cobalt blue ground with rich and very fine gilding. The piece is probably made as a potpourri. This piece would make a fabulous display on your Easter, Thanksgiving or Christmas table! Minton was one of the pioneers of English china production alongside other great potters such as Spode, Davenport, Ridgway, Coalport and others. They were located in Staffordshire and were known specifically for their wonderfully fine white bone china and bright colours; there is a colour called "Minton Blue" which is a fresh azure blue that was very fashionable during the Victorian era. Throughout the different phases of its existence, the factory made top quality creamware, porcelain, majolica and ultimately the finest parian porcelain. Minton excelled in their decorations and gilt work; these were often executed by artists who came from the Sèvres factory in France and brought their skills with them. This large centre piece consists of three pieces: the base, the actual comport that can hold a liberal amount of food such as a large piece of game, and the cover. That being so, these pieces are more known for their decorative value and make a stunning display at the centre of a table setting. This piece is not documented and no pictures are known of it other than one I have heard about in the grapevine but never seen myself: an image in a collection of images of the designs made by Minton for Thomas Goode, the famous retailer in London. The relationship between Minton and Thomas Goode was a long and fruitful one. Goode, who was a close friend of Herbert Minton, commissioned a series of Victorian ornamental pieces in imitation of the late 18th Century Sèvres pieces that Goode had in his own collection. Minton did not just copy the Sèvres pieces, but created entirely new ones using the old 18th Century designs, hereby moving decidedly away from the English Rococo style, which had become increasingly strange and a little tired over the years. Minton, who had taken on Léon Arnoux, previously a painter at Sèvres, as Art Director. Arnoux was able to revive the design of ornamental wares in English soft paste porcelain...Category
Antique 1860s English Victorian Urns
MaterialsPorcelain
- Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze and Sky Blue Sèvres Style Porcelain VasesBy Manufacture Nationale de SèvresLocated in New York, NYA pair of late 19th century gilt bronze and sky blue Sèvres style porcelain vases. The front of the vases painted with a woman and cherubs, the back as landscape scenes. The handl...Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Vases
MaterialsBronze
- Very Large Antique French Sevres Style Porcelain VaseBy Manufacture Nationale de SèvresLocated in London, GBVery large antique French Sèvres style porcelain vase French, Late 19th Century Height 154cm, diameter 41cm This fantastic vase is the work of J. Pascault, a famed porcelain artist of the late 19th Century who specialised in the production of Sevres-style pieces. It is beautifully executed, and especially impressive given its large size of one and a half metres (almost 5 feet) in height. The vase is tall and slender in shape, set on a gilt bronze plinth, and surmounted by a cover with a pinecone finial. Its ovoid body is decorated around its exterior in the Rococo taste: showing a female figure and winged putti in a landscape...Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Rococo Vases
MaterialsOrmolu
- Blue Porcelain Sevres VasesLocated in New York, NYPair of 1920s French royal blue porcelain vases with bronze mounts and marked Sevres. Measurements: Height 16.5".Category
Vintage 1920s French Vases
- Palatial Pair of Late 19th Century Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain VasesBy Manufacture Nationale de SèvresLocated in New York, NYA palatial pair of late 19th century bronze mounted Sèvres style cobalt blue porcelain vases and covers Each of baluster form with domed cover with pine cone finial, above a waist...Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Porcelain
MaterialsBronze
- Pair of Large Sèvres-style Porcelain and Gilt-Metal VasesBy Manufacture Nationale de SèvresLocated in London, GBPair of large Sèvres-style porcelain and gilt-metal vases. French, 20th century Measures: height 97cm, width 42cm, depth 30cm With covers, el...Category
20th Century French Rococo Vases
MaterialsPorcelain