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Box (one of a pair)

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:

Probably designed by Christopher Dresser (English, born Scotland, 1834-1904)
Minton (Stoke-on-Trent, England, founded 1793)

About this artwork

Status

On View, Gallery 246

Department

Applied Arts of Europe

Artist

Christopher Dresser

Title

Box (one of a pair)

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.

c. 1873–1880

Medium

Bone china, enamel, and gilding

Inscriptions

Impressed MINTONS (on base), impressed indistinct number, probably 1512 (on base), other indistinct impressed marks (on base)

Dimensions

8.9 × 12.1 × 12.1 cm (3 9/16 × 4 13/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman

Reference Number

2020.312.2a-b

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