1592984312000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-75036 1754330645551 1714467794000 1754330624263 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-75036 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75036 4a8ee79b-3553-37ee-b325-693f7128447a 5 reference agent-190684 adlib-agent-190684 2579108e-638f-3b33-9b9f-1609c02ae9ce Minton, Herbert reference agent-192153 adlib-agent-192153 c4be50a6-9d1e-3e13-8186-fd7504317801 Campbell, Colin Minton reference agent-192154 adlib-agent-192154 008703e9-2a85-3b84-a33f-7620291deb49 Arnoux, Leon reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware reference term-133689 adlib-term-133689 4ef26466-81ce-3d12-aa11-d9f705180c56 majolica ware deep blue, white reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels Decoration reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-27527 adlib-term-27527 c2872f47-1ee0-3d35-8eef-dc4434baeef1 transfer printing Handles reference term-121246 adlib-term-121246 cd0cb1a4-68fa-396e-a2f5-856490890cd3 modelling Applied Arts Cream earthenware vase, moulded with two modelled handles, transfer printed and painted in white and deep blue. Amphora shape on flared, conical foot with a narrow ribbed neck and everted rim. Two handles modelled as snakes, coil on the rim and curve down to meet the rounded shoulders. Painted in dark blue on a white ground with a frieze of putti playing on swags linked by two bearded masks below the handles. The frieze is bordered by Renaissance-style scrolling foliage and motifs, also on the neck and foot; the handles have a blue snake-skin pattern painted onto the cream clay. The underside has an unglazed foot-rim and a deep indentation into the stem. reference exhibition-1072 adlib-exhibition-1072 5f0c5c3b-ca10-352c-8c84-8027304959ff Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art - The Handley-Read Collection reference exhibition-2046 adlib-exhibition-2046 3c0cfca9-2b18-38eb-8224-69831f794488 Alfred Stevens, 1817-1875 reference exhibition-2370 adlib-exhibition-2370 2d49a842-0f2f-31d5-bd38-16ad210e3a69 The Victorian Vision of Italy C.42-1972 1 accession number C.42-1972 75036 priref 75036 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75036 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75036 underside of base impressed MINTON factory mark a horizontal line crossing 'Z' underside of base impressed underside of base impressed A date mark underside of base impressed 658 mark underside of base impressed B mark underside of base two rectangular paper labels handwritten in black ink Vase, MINTON, designed by Alfred Stevens. Date mark [crossed Z] for 1864. cf. H. Wakefield Victorian Pottery pl.42: an almost identical vase in V&A, same date £4.00 Portobello Dec. 1966. / See Stannus. H Alfred Stevens and his Work, London, 1891, pl. XLVII - the design for the frieze of this vase with putti, masks etc. reproduced (also details in other plates of V & A M Minton-Stevens vases). label loose inside vase rectangular paper label, typewritten Ex Leicester, The Victorian Vision of Italy, Cat. No. 137 label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum From the Charles & Lavinia Handley-Read Collection, bought from the Perceval Fund and the V & A grant-in-aid fund. reference agent-160895 adlib-agent-160895 a1eb7880-da59-3f1e-96f8-35488a6c8c56 Stainton, Thomas 1972 1972 1972-06-17 bought Entry date: 1972-10-19 1864 CE 1864 marked; design produced 1861 1864 production reference agent-153865 adlib-agent-153865 853be336-7cfb-32d1-aa54-fb4dff401cf0 Minton & Co. designer reference agent-130331 adlib-agent-130331 f95f28ac-13ef-3848-8ccc-ed140fd91227 Stevens, Alfred George Alfred Stevens (1817-1875) was a painter, sculptor and designer. He spent several years studying in Italy, before working for Minton c.1859-1862. This design, which he originally produced in 1861, illustrates his interest in echoing the decoration of Italian Renaissance maiolica. Stevens produced other similar designs using this shape of vase, but he may not have designed the shape as it was in use before he joined the company. Minton launched wares ‘coloured in the Majolica style’ at the Great Exhibition of 1851, to great acclaim. The new product took inspiration from the earlier Italian maiolica, tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration, but used brightly coloured lead-glazes and generally favoured sculptural forms rather than finely painted decoration. A few Minton designers, however, such as Stevens and the Minton Art Director, Léon Arnoux, sought closer imitation using enamels and shapes based on Urbino models (as here), though such work was never so widely produced. Minton, founded in 1793 by Thomas Minton (1765-1836), originally produced blue printed earthenware and, later, creamware, bone china and other products, particularly tableware. Taking over in 1836, his son Herbert Minton revolutionised production methods and introduced new lines in encaustic and printed tiles, figures and ornamental wares. In 1858 the business passed to Herbert’s son, Colin Minton Campbell, who continued the expansion.The early business traded under various names, from 1845 it was known as Minton & Co. and from 1873 as Mintons Ltd. reference term-15214 adlib-term-15214 744af2c4-a2f2-37ad-bbf4-2cd00e91ed9b Victorian reference term-116524 adlib-term-116524 2532ce61-8150-3256-b951-d5175a8faa11 literal England England country Stoke cream reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware reference term-37088 adlib-term-37088 0a28530e-cea8-3d08-b792-a30bf68f524f clear glaze Height cm 29 Width cm 14 reference media-44057 adlib-media-44057 44479a00-f4e0-3e5e-b603-39a827b03833 jpeg aa/aa11/C_42_1972_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583258954 1 image jpeg aa/aa11/mid_C_42_1972_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583258954 1 image jpeg aa/aa11/C_42_1972_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583258954 1 image jpeg aa/aa11/preview_C_42_1972_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583258954 1 image 0 media image reference media-44058 adlib-media-44058 760379b0-e2f5-3a15-8c73-662d94208422 jpeg aa/aa11/C_42_1972_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583306069 1 image jpeg aa/aa11/mid_C_42_1972_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583306069 1 image jpeg aa/aa11/C_42_1972_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583306069 1 image jpeg aa/aa11/preview_C_42_1972_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583306069 1 image 1 media image reference term-89480 adlib-term-89480 f1ea518e-351c-3f42-b2a7-db0f8559fa2c vase history note Charles & Lavinia Handley-Read; according to label, purchased for £4.00, Portobello [Road, London?]. 1 reference object-15302 adlib-object-15302 df15d696-5363-3c1f-9a01-34bbf626c29b

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jug reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference publication-1048 adlib-publication-1048 3731e4a6-d392-3c17-9cbb-1cb7a099cfbb Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection Cf. G6, a very similar Minton vase by Stevens, though with slightly different design on the foot, in the V&A collection (185-1864). Notes an identical example at the Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Métiers, Paris. See p.17-18 for factory and date marks. 49 reference publication-2727 adlib-publication-2727 02232f50-fd3b-3b8a-9687-1a8ff3f7c0d1 Minton 1798-1910 Cf. illustration of the frieze used here and other vases of this shape designed by Stevens. Notes design produced 1861 ‘for cheap production’, with the transfer paper cut to fit the vase form. Plates XLVI, XLVII reference publication-936 adlib-publication-936 53f5a02d-d68b-3a44-8d81-8b1ae0e477ab Alfred Stevens and his Work, being a collection of 57 autotypes, with a brief memoir and account of his principal productions; Cf. similar vase in the V&A collection and other examples of Stevens’ designs, also short biography of Stevens; p.367 for Minton bibliography. 306 reference publication-7697 adlib-publication-7697 78ab2e7d-b46a-3610-9abd-ab9839494cf3 Dictionary of Minton Cf. examples of Stevens’ woek, including other snake-handles vases, biographical information and contemporary critique of his ‘able designs […] wrought out with a skill worthy of the period of the cinque cento’. 138-9 reference publication-3003 adlib-publication-3003 642094f9-3e39-3eeb-90ea-42311670123e Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production Cf. Minton majolica ware ewer & basin (ill.) and information about Minton majolica. 110 reference publication-1030 adlib-publication-1030 9cf77d50-a614-3947-8d0e-919f695fe7b0 Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Ref. datemark; also information about designers, incl.Stevens, and majolica styles. 32 reference publication-7698 adlib-publication-7698 47b18eed-f183-34ab-a010-3ed1821bbf58 Minton ‘Majolica’: an historical survey and exhibition catalogue Ref. marks 187 reference publication-1508 adlib-publication-1508 e85553c5-9ccd-38e9-be31-91db994e0a76 Victorian Pottery reference term-10679 adlib-term-10679 30c89029-7ace-3d30-9487-1e243ab1b791 Renaissance Revival

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