Period: Early Victorian
Maker: Minton
Minton made this elegantly proportioned sucrier in pure white porcelain in 1843. The bowl and cover have a type of moulded ribbing called ‘Paris flute,’ after the Sèvres porcelain factory outside Paris that introduced the shape in about 1816.
The handles are formed from entwined ‘twigs’ and the borders around the rims of the bowl and cover are decorated with interlocking blue chains between gilt bands.
The word MINTON and various potter’s marks are impressed on the base, along with a small diamond-shape year cypher for 1843. There is also a painted pattern number, 5471, which corresponds to that year.
Condition Perfect. Unused.
Height: 10.1 cm; Width across handles: 15 cm; Diameter of cover: 10 cm
Net weight: 537 g
Origin: Stoke-on-Trent, England
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
