Each of angular bottle form, with a broad band of stylized leaves and white flowers finely enameled at its flaring neck, on a gilt blind-fretwork foot
7³⁄₄ in. (19.7 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 28 July 1995, lot 100.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

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Christopher Dresser provided designs to Minton beginning in the late 1860s, often incorporating ornament inspired by Japanese and Middle Eastern prototypes. The decoration to the present vases reflects a fusion of the two, its angular strapwork foot evoking the Aesthetic Movement's taste for Japonism and the stylized floral band to its neck evoking Egyptian sources. A pair of examples of this model is illustrated in The Fine Art Society, Exhibition Catalogue, Truth, Beauty, Power: the Designs of Dr. Christopher Dresser, 1834-1904, London, 2014, cat. no. 6., and another is currently on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (accession no. C.163-1981).

Dresser seems to have designed several variant decorative motifs for this shape, which were in production in the years ranging from 1867 to 1875, many enameled and gilt in imitation of East Asian cloisonné metalwork. See the pair illustrated in H. Lyons and C. Morley, Christopher Dresser: The People's Designer, 1834-1904, Abbotts Morton, 1999, fig. 31, cat nos. C-153 and C-154. Per the caption to an example illustrated in M. Whiteway, Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser's Design Revolution, London, 2004, p. 101, plate no. 129, the Minton Archive holds a drawing relating to this shape.