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Moon Flask

A work made of bone china, enamel, and gilding.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of bone china, enamel, and gilding.

Date:

c. 1875

Artist:

Minton (Stoke-on-Trent, England, founded 1793)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Applied Arts of Europe

Title

Moon Flask

Place

Stoke-on-Trent (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1873–1880

Medium

Bone china, enamel, and gilding

Inscriptions

Stamped crowned globe mark with word MINTONS (on base, in purple), impressed MINTONS (on rim of base), two painted ovals (on base; in red), indecipherable impressed marks (on rim of base; possibly date code for 1875)

Dimensions

20.2 × 15.3 × 8.3 cm (7 15/16 × 6 × 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman

Reference Number

2020.303

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