Moon Flask

About this artwork

Status

On View, Gallery 231

Department

Applied Arts of Europe

Artist

Christopher Dresser (Designer)

Title

Moon Flask

Place

England (Object made in)

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1873

Medium

Bone china, enamel, and gilding

Inscriptions

Impressed MINTON (on base), impressed symbol (on base; for 1873), impressed stylized M (on base), impressed 1348 (on base; indicating shape), painted B (on base; in blue), two painted crosses (on base; one in red, one in black), indistinguishable painted mark (on base; in red)

Dimensions

25.9 × 20.4 × 10.8 cm (10 3/16 × 8 × 4 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman

Reference Number

2020.313

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