Minton Furniture
English
Pottery is one of the oldest decorative art forms, and Minton is one of its historical masters. For more than 250 years, the English company was a premier producer of porcelain and ceramic wares. Its factory was known for detailed and brightly colored Victorian tableware, including dinner plates and serving pieces.
Thomas Minton founded the Minton factory in 1793 in Stoke-upon-Trent, England. It initially made earthenware but introduced bone china in 1798. When Minton died in 1836, the company passed to his son, Herbert Minton. The younger Minton was a savvy businessman with an eye for design. He introduced glossy majolica earthenware to the factory’s repertoire and hired skilled artists and designers like Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, boosting the company’s reputation.
In 1851, Minton debuted its majolica at the Great Exhibition in London. It became a royal family favorite and was even used to tile the Royal Dairy at Windsor Home Park. Minton majolica was also displayed on the monumental Saint George and the dragon fountain at the 1862 London International Exhibition.
Colin Minton Campbell, a nephew of Herbert Minton, took over the family business in 1858. He led the company to the head of the 1870s English art pottery movement. In the 1890s, French porcelain artist Marc-Louis Solon helped modernize Minton with his Art Nouveau designs.
Minton ceased operating as an independent company when it merged with Royal Doulton Tableware Ltd. in 1968. It was the end of an era, but not the end of widespread appreciation for Minton ceramics.
In 1982, the ”English Majolica” exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum featured 75 Minton pieces. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its British Galleries in 2020, it included a display of three colorful Minton majolica bird sculptures. Minton pottery was also on display from September 2021 to January 2022, along with other English pottery, at the Bard Graduate Center’s ”Majolica Mania” exhibition.
On 1stDibs, find exquisite Minton serveware, decorative objects, wall decorations and more.
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Creator: Minton
English Victorian Blue Majolica Nautilus Shell Pot
By Minton
Located in New York, NY
English Victorian large blue Majolica porcelain jardiniere of nautilus shell shape raised on a leafy form pedestal base (signed MINTON, 1873)
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Maiolica
Minton Majolica Mallard Game Pie Dish and Cover
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica game pie dish which features a hare, mallard and blackbird on a bed of fern and oak leaves. Coloration: brown, green, turquoise,...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Cherub Flower Holder
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica flower holder which features a cherub carrying wheatsheaf. Coloration: ochre, green, cream, are predominant. The piece bears mak...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Minton 19th Century Aesthetic Movement Hand-Painted Fish Platter
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This fish platter is a true work of art! Classic Aesthetic Movement whimsical decoration with fish in motion and in conversation with the viewer, it has a three-dimensional feel. Rea...
Category
19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Minton Pigeon Pie Tureen
By Minton
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Minton Majolica pigeon pie tureen with wickerwork design. Supported by three realistically modelled grey fantailed pigeons roosting...
Category
19th Century English Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Set of 13 Minton Dinner Plates Soft Blue Green Raised Paste Gold Leaf Pattern
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This set of 13 Minton dinner plates feature the iconic "Eau de Nils" enamel border which is a soft blue green, described as the "wat...
Category
Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th-Century Majolica Minton Chinaman Teapot
By Minton
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica figural teapot signed Minton.
Modeled as a Chinaman , the tail formed as the Chinaman’s pigtail, his head forming the cover with his hair comb ...
Category
1890s English Victorian Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Blue Victorian Majolica Pitcher Banana Leaf Minton, circa 1859
By Minton
Located in Austin, TX
19th pastel blue Majolica banana leaf pitcher signed Minton dated October 1859.
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Anglo-Japanese Majolica Jug by Minton
By Minton
Located in London, GB
Minton, an Anglo-Japanese Majolica jug, modelled with lily pads and flowers, on a Japanese wave ground, overall turquoise glazed, impressed marks, da...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Set of Nine Minton 19th Century Hand-Painted Dessert Plates, Antonin Boullemier
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This amazing set of nine Mintons, 19th century cabinet plates depicting young nymphs in fanciful, bucolic settings are beautifully and realistically painted on a soft aqua background...
Category
Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large Minton Secessionist No.3 Wall Charger
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Mintons Secessionist No.3 wall charger. Green and blue ground with black tube lining. Stylized flowers in a typical Art Nouveau design. 'MINTON' & '15' i...
Category
1910s English Art Nouveau Vintage Minton Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Minton Secessionist No.5 Plate
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Mintons Secessionist No.5 plate. Turqoiuse, blue and orange ground, with green and brown tube lining. Stylised flower, in a typical Art Nouveau des...
Category
1910s English Art Nouveau Vintage Minton Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Pair of Porcelain Plates Depicting Putto at Play by Minton, Dated 1881
By Minton
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very decorative pair of porcelain plates depicting Putto at Play, by Minton.
English, dated 1881.
Impressed Marks for Minton and year Cypher for 1881.
Each plate is fine...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Aesthetic Movement Soup Tureen with Ladle
By Minton
Located in New York, NY
Aesthetic Movement soup tureen with ladle. Aesthetic Movement soup tureen with ladle and cover in brown, yellow and green Faisan pattern with t...
Category
Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Minton Flower Sellers
By Minton
Located in London, GB
A pair of Minton figures of flowers sellers in the form of a youth and a girl in 18 century costume, each seated between two large baskets of very fine flowers, on gilt scrolled base...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Other Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Minton Majolica Tudor Figure Candelabra
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica candelabra which features a Tudor dressed man, holding his arms aloft. He holds torches in his hands, which form the candle holders'. Color...
Category
1860s English Tudor Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Flagship Corsair Vegetable Bowl
By Minton
Located in Norwell, MA
Personal dinnerware made exclusively for J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) for use aboard his Flagship Corsair, built in 1890. This 6” Flagship Corsair vegetable side plate bowl by Mint...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
English Minton Plates with Greek Key Design, Pair
By Minton
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful set of two antique English Minton hand painted porcelain plates with a floral and Greek key design, finished with a gold trim, circa early-20th century, England. Greek-ke...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Gold
Monumental Minton Majolica Ewer and Stand
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica ewer and stand which features putti supporting the stem of the ewer, a cherub riding a dolphin below the spout. A merboy with entwined se...
Category
1850s English Renaissance Revival Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Majolica
12 Minton Dinner Plates Hand-Painted Nautical Maritime Motif Signed J E Dean
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
A fabulous and rare set of 12 Mintons artist signed dinner plates with hand painted borders, trimmed in acid etched gold. What makes these plates special is the subtle variation of n...
Category
1920s English Vintage Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Minton’s Art Pottery Studio Kensington Gore Hand-Painted Charger
By Minton
Located in Cincinnati, OH
This large hand-painted charger was made by Mintons Art Pottery Studio of Kensington Gore, London. The studio traces its origins to the renowned earthenware and fine bone china factory Minton, located in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire England. Colin Minton Campbell, descendant of founder Thomas Minton, took over company management in 1858 and went on to establish Mintons Art Pottery Studio in 1871 for the purpose of hand decorating pottery and tiles. The studio initially operated under the direction of painter and book illustrator William Stephen Coleman and drew upon the talents of artists studying at the Kensington's National Art Training School, now known as the Royal College of Art, as well as those of well-regarded Continental artists. The company was short lived as it was destroyed by an accidental fire in 1875 and was not rebuilt.
This large earthenware charger has been hand-painted in polychrome enamel and depicts two young children at play in the nursery. The scene includes multiple colors and textures and features a cherubic toddler seated upon a bed alongside a young girl standing on a blue footstool...
Category
1870s Great Britain (UK) Aesthetic Movement Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Set of 18 English Porcelain Plates, Minton, circa 1890
By Minton
Located in New York, NY
Artist William Mussell (1828-1906) specializing in botanical in the ornithological compositions in the Barbotine time style in Minton from 1870-1900. He also excelled in the painting...
Category
1890s English Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Minton Aesthetic Movement Tiled Jardinieres with Lily of the Valley
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This pair of jardinieres is made of 19th century Mintons porcelain tiles which have been mounted into later constructed jardinieres. The tiles are all matching, each one decorated with lily of the valley floral motifs.
Beautifully detailed constructed beaded boxes, frame these Aesthetic Movement tiles...
Category
19th Century British Aesthetic Movement Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Minton Majolica Foxglove Vase
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica vase which features foxglove flowers and leaves in deep relief. Colouration: cobalt blue, green, white, are predominant. The piece bears maker's marks for the Minton ...
Category
1870s English Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Majolica
A Set of 6 Cups 6 Saucers Minton Dynasty Cobalt Blue & Raised Gold. 12 Pieces
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
From one of our favorite Gilded Age Factories, Minton, we have a set of 6 cups and 6 Saucers. From their storied Dynasty pattern featuring raised gold accents and cobalt blue color. ...
Category
1960s Vintage Minton Furniture
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Eleven Crazy Cow Dinner Plates Hand Painted by Minton England Circa 1820
By Minton
Located in Katonah, NY
This set of eleven plates is hand-painted in a pattern called "Crazy Cow," known for its animated and whimsical design.
These beautifully painted, lively dinner plates each measure 9...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinoiserie Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Creamware
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, Mottled Leopard Spots, English, Dated 1871
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, the relief-molded dish with six wells glazed in green and brown mottled leopard spots, each well separated by shells and seaweed, the center well glazed...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Minton Fine Bone China Gold Plated 115 Piece Buckingham Dinner Service
By Minton
Located in London, GB
A beautiful and classic 115 piece Fine Bone China service by Minton in their exemplary Buckingham pattern ‘K-159’, first designed in 1929 and now discontinued. The outer body or rim of each piece is in cream, with a heavy encrusted gold border with a floral design worked into the gold, and further gold accent rings in each case. The interior or centre is left the clear, exceptional white for which the china is known, and the underside is stamped with the Minton mark.
Pieces and Dimensions:
12 x Dinner Plates, Diameter 27cm x H 2cm
12 x Starter Plates...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Minton Porcelain Bottle Shaped Vase C.1840
By Minton
Located in Exeter, GB
A fine Minton porcelain bottle shaped vase c.1840. Finely decorated with a panel containing painted fruits by Thomas Steel with a border of richly tooled gilding by John Robins in typical Minton’s Sevres...
Category
19th Century Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 18 Minton Cobalt Blue Gilt Dinner Plates, Vintage
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant set of eighteen (18) dinner plates by one of England's re known firms Minton. This vintage set features a cobalt blue and raised paste gilt design with double 24 karat gold acid etched bands on its collar. A generous white and cream base is present for the entre. In very good antique condition these plates will mix and match in nicely with all your fine table...
Category
1960s British Vintage Minton Furniture
Materials
Gold, Enamel
19th Century Rare English Majolica Floral Jardiniere Minton
By Minton
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Rare English Majolica Floral Jardiniere signed Minton.
Rare set.
H / 7.7 inches , Diameter cache pot / 10.6 inches , Platter / 11 inches.
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Set of 18 Green & Heavily Gilt Encrusted Dessert/Salad Plates Antique English
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A vibrant and elegant set of plates by the re known Gilded Age Porcelain firm of Minton England. This set was custom ordered through a fine retailer D.B King of Detroit known for sto...
Category
Early 1900s British Neoclassical Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Gold
19th Century Minton Majolica Shell Posy Aqua Vase
By Minton
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Majolica Shell Posy Aqua Vase signed Minton.
modeled as a scallop supported by seaweeds.
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
11 Elegant Antique English White Gold Dinner Plates, Antique Custom Ordered
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Classic set of dinner plates with a thick 24-karat gold encrusted band and raised paste gilt jeweling on the collar in a swag and bead pattern. Made by Minton England and retailed ...
Category
Early 1900s English Belle Époque Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Gold
4 Minton for Tiffany Pâte-sur-Pâte Signed Alboin Birks Plates, Raised Gilding
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and wonderful find featuring the pinnacle of porcelain artistry. This complete set of 4 Minton, England for Tiffany’s Pâte-sur-pâte luncheon or...
Category
1920s English Greco Roman Vintage Minton Furniture
Pr. Mintons Pâte-sur-pâte Blue-Ground Vases, 'Too Fast' & 'Too Slow', L. Solon
By Minton
Located in New York, NY
A monumental, rare, and highly important pair of Mintons Pâte-Sur-Pâte Peacock-Blue-Ground Vases, Known as 'Too Fast' And 'Too Slow' Produced in 1893, sign...
Category
1890s British Belle Époque Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Minton Bamboo Garden Pots
By Minton
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Minton Majolica bamboo garden pots or cache pots. Designed as molded pieces of faux bamboo tied with blue ribbon. Minton. Pattern no: 480, circa 1862 (Matching Minton garden seat...
Category
20th Century English Minton Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Minton Ram's Head Jardinière
By Minton
Located in New York, NY
Majolica jardinière in rare green color with spiral fluted body, garlands of fruit and flowers, ram's head handles. Minton Renaissance piece like this one was shown at the Great Exhi...
Category
19th Century English Antique Minton Furniture
Materials
Majolica
Minton furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Minton furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of ceramic and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Minton furniture, although beige editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Minton were created in the Art Deco style in united kingdom during the 19th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Royal Worcester, Brown, Westhead & Moore/Cauldon, and Stevens & Williams. Prices for Minton furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $75 and can go as high as $34,500, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,463.
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Questions About Minton Furniture
- What is Minton Majolica?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Minton Majolica is a type of glazing process for pottery. Created at the Minton factory in London, Majolica is a low-temperature, colored lead glaze used on earthenware pottery. You’ll find a selection of antique Milton Majolica pieces from some of the world’s top dealers on 1stDibs.
- What are Minton tiles made of?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Minton tiles are made with clay. Liquid clay is poured into molded patterns, and because the color is infused into the liquid clay, the tile remains durable and resistant to fading for years to come. You can shop a range of Minton products from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
- Does Minton still exist?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022No, sadly Minton no longer exists. It was acquired by the Wedgwood group, and is now retired. The buildings that produced Minton pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, England were demolished in the 1990s and 2000s. You can shop authentic Minton designs from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
- Is Mintons china or porcelain?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022China and porcelain can be used interchangeably, however, china gets its name from the country of origin. Products from the mid 20th century from Mintons are often referred to as ‘Minton china’ or ‘Minton.’ Mintons produces a variety of products including china, stoneware and mosaics. Shop a wide range of Minton’s pottery on 1stDibs from top sellers.