Antic vase

Is it possible to identify this vase? It has been in my family for about 120 years, but I don't know anything about it.

 

Thank you!

 

I forgot the size; it is 32 cm high and 21 cm deep.

 

Hi Thor!

Welcome to Antiquers............

 

Thanks!

 

according to this 1888:

 

Thank you for the information!

 

Looks Austro/Bohemian, perhaps from a factory like Amphora. Date you suggest looks right, c1890-1905.

 

@Tahmoor girl - how did you identify this as Minton?

 

I used my 'Bing' image engine search, which collects all pictures on the Net of anything and it found charts of all antique pottery marks. I did quick visual scan of any mark that looked like the one shown and discovered that is was likely a date mark. Nothing in any of the other pottery charts was remotely similar.

MINTONS was a major company in Staffordshire pottery, "Europe's leading ceramic factory during the Victorian era", an independent business from 1793 to 1968. It was a leader in ceramic design, working in a number of different ceramic bodies, decorative techniques, and "a glorious pot-pourri of styles - Rococo shapes with Oriental motifs, Classical shapes with Medieval designs and Art Nouveau borders were among the many wonderful concoctions"

The family continued to control the business until the mid-20th century.

 

--- what Davey said!

It is earthenware of some sort, not Staffordshire either.

 

Earthenware: https://www.britannica.com/art/earthenware

 

No way is that Minton.

 

Amphora/Teplitz/Royal Dux are more highly 'finished' with firing & glaze.

 

Thank you for that research source. My Google image search is never very helpful, and often amusingly incorrect.

 

Only useful when properly applied, as with any internet search.

 

Hi Thor, and WELCOME to ANTIQUERS!! GREAT images!! Fascinating vase!!