Period: Mid-Victorian
Maker: Minton
A superb Minton cabinet plate, combining hand-painting of exceptional skill and artistry with a design that is at once refined, stylish and luxurious.
The painting of a white stork standing in water amid bulrushes is finely composed and executed. Interspersed in the duck-egg blue border are six panels of butterflies and moths, also hand-painted. Their relief gold frames were made through acid gilding,a technique Minton had patented in 1863.
The base is impressed with MINTON, a potter’s mark, the cipher for 1868 (G), and the month initial for October (O).
Condition Pristine, apart from faint utensil scratches on the central painting, and minor gilt rubbing to the rim.
Origin: Stoke on Trent, England
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
Diameter: 23.6cm
Weight: 426g
