tile
- Museum number
- 1980,0307.37.a-d
- Description
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Four earthenware tiles forming a frieze, dust-pressed with cream body, transfer-printed in blue underglaze on a white ground. The design is three flying cranes and clouds with Persian-style borders of flowers in ogee arches above and below. Maker's mark on reverse.
- Production date
- 1872-1875 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 20 centimetres
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Width: 20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The design is probably by Dresser. It appears as no. 1682 G, sheet 16 in a Minton catalogue of c 1885 (reprinted by Richard Dennis Publications, Shepton Beauchamp, 1996). The Persian-style border with a floral central motif was registered on 10 December 1872, parcel 2 (PRO number 268724) together with a different flying crane design found on other wares such as a jardiniere, a barrel-shaped garden seat, a plate, cup and saucer in the Minton Museum (and a plate sold at Phillips).
See also Stoke 1984, no. 240 and Austwick pl. 238. For other crane designs, see: 'Dictionary of Minton' by Atterbury and Batkin; Jones 1993; Rudoe 1994 (Dresser jardiniere).
- Location
- On display (G47/dc12)
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1980,0307.37.a-d
