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Flower Vase
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This photograph from the Minton Archive shows the Flower Vase which, in a different form was exhibited by the Minton firm at the Great Exhibition in 1851. As it was exhibited, and as it figures in the Art Journal's illustrated catalogue of the exhibition, in place of the gorgon's head motif shown in the photograph, roundel reliefs of the four seasons by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen in Parian Ware, were inserted into the terracotta body of the vase. This version with the Gorgon's head, and probably entirely in terracotta, is likely to have been Marochetti's conception in its entirety. It is typical of the neo-renaissance decorative style, sometimes combining arabesque and grotesque features which Marochetti brought to Minton products. These were either in monochrome terracotta or Parian, or else in the more brightly coloured Majolica Ware, introduced by the firm's French artistic director, Leon Arnoux.
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Year: |
1851 |
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Key: |
5786 |
Acc. No.: |
5786 |
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5786 |
Number of views: |
2461 |
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