A rare Minton porcelain vase and cover the design attributed to Dr Christopher Dresser

A rare Minton porcelain vase and cover the design attributed to Dr Christopher Dresser, Japanese gourd form with modelled silk tie, painted in the Persian manner with elaborate panels of flowers in yellow, coral and white on a red and blue panelled ground, highlighted in gilt printed mark to base 27cm. high Literature Christopher Dresser, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Koln 1981 exhibition catalogue page 39 plate 34, illustrates a Japanese Double gourd form from which the shape has inspired this vase - the pattern is also similar to Dresser's textile designs for J W & C Ward reproduced page 43 from the Art Journal 1871. Christopher Morley Dresser's Decorative Design page 154 figure 280 this vase illustrated in the forthcoming Dresser monograph