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A Minton Majolica Turquoise Ground Snake-Handled Jardinière, Dated 1858
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A Minton Majolica Large Turquoise Ground Jardinière Designed by Gottfried Semper (German 1803 -1879), the ovid-form body applied with entwined snakes forming the handles, the rim with a Renaissance-style band of oblong chain-work reserves with green stylized leaves and glazed in rose, green, and yellow, with a spiral band similarly glazed, the pedestal base edged with rose-colored roping, the interior glazed in pink (with drainage hole to center), the reverse with impressed marks, 'MINTON,' date cypher for 1858, and design number '532.' The jardinière was available in two sizes, 15-ins, and 20-ins wide, this being the larger.
Professor Gottfried Semper (German 1803 -1879) was an architect, designer, author, and design theorist. While at the Dresden School of Art, he was forced to flee in 1848 due to his involvement in the May Revolution and eventually found refuge in England, where he was employed at South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in the Department of Practical Art and was a member of the Prince Consort's circle. From 1852 to about 1855, he taught principles of decoration at the Government Schools of Design from 1852 to about 1855. (Weber, Vol. I, p. 200). According to Paul Atterbury, in circa 1850, Herbert Minton hired Semper to design pieces for his firm's new range of wares, Majolica. Atterbury includes a design drawing by Semper, ca. 1852, of this piece (p. 298).
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BOOK REFERENCES:
*Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, THE DICTIONARY OF MINTON. Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, Revised Edition 1998, p. 298 (design drawing).
*Susan Weber et al., MAJOLICA MANIA: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States 1850--1915. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020, Volume One, p. 178, FIG. 7.9. (color photo) and p. 200, FIG. 8.2 (color photo).
- Creator:Gottfried Semper (Designer),Minton (Maker)
- Dimensions:Height: 10.25 in (26.04 cm)Width: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Depth: 16.25 in (41.28 cm)
- Style:Victorian (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:Majolica,Molded
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- Date of Manufacture:1858
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Banner Elk, NC
- Reference Number:Seller: WIN10yy-MANET1stDibs: LU1302231577482
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.
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