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.
12 Tiffany & Company Mintons 'Gold Crocus' Pattern Twin handled Cups & Saucers
By Tiffany & Co., Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
12 Tiffany & Company Mintons 'Gold Crocus' Pattern Twin Handled Cups & Saucers, England Circa 1950 This exquisite set of 12 Mintons 'Gold Crocus' twin-handled cups and saucers is a...
Porcelain
$4,160Sale Price / set|20% Off
12 Dinner Plates Antique Minton Cobalt Blue Raised Gilt Medallion Swag C. 1910
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A classic and elegant set of 12 Minton England bone china dinner plates. This set features a nice deep collar of cobalt blue that is accented with raised tooled gilded swags and thei...
Gold, Enamel
8 Tiffany White and Gold Gilt Encrusted Dessert Plates, Antique English
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Classic and elegant white and gold first course, dessert or salad plate by one of England's storied porcelain firms, Coalport England. This plate features a raised gilt encrusted f...
Gold
6 Antique Mintons Porcelain Raised Gold Twin Handled Bouillons / Cups & Saucers
By Minton
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine set of 6 richly gilt porcelain bullion or tea cups. By Mintons. In an Aesthetic Movement numbered pattern with raised gold and gold jeweling throughout. Each marked to the ...
Porcelain
12 Heavily Gilt Encrusted Antique Green & Gold Minton England Dinner Plates
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A gorgeous set ! Please click on the pictures to see the detail and enlarge. Heavy raised paste gilding on a vibrant green collar and custom ordered through the fine Gilded Age Retai...
Gold, Enamel
English Minton Ancestral Bone China Floral Saucer or Trinket Dish, England
By Minton
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful bone china saucer or trinket dish in Minton's "Ancestral" pattern. With scalloped edges, painted in gold, and a floral green, red, and brown...
Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint
11 Aesthetic Movement Minton Hand Painted Botanical Dessert Plates Butterflies
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This set of 11 Minton hand painted dessert plates is a wonderful example of the artistry of the Aesthetic Movement. Dated 1881, these depict the co...
Porcelain
19th C Minton Hand Painted Botanical Pierced Rim Dessert Service
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
A complete hand painted dessert service made by Minton showcases their superb talent and artistry. Gorgeous specimens are featured in the centers of each plate, consisting of 12 dessert plates, 2 tall compotes...
Paste, Porcelain
Set of 10 Minton's Stanhope Plates, England, circa 1900
By Minton
Located in Chappaqua, NY
Set of 10 Minton's Stanhope plates, England, circa 1900. The Stanhope pattern features a fruit and floral border and center design with a blue and gold palette. There is a raised bas...
Ceramic
12 Pirkenhammer Aesthetic Movement Cabinet/Dessert Plates
By Pirkenhammer
Located in Great Barrington, MA
A uniquely decorated set of 12 dessert plates with the most unusual Aesthetic Movement perspective. Each plate is individually hand painted and the specific subject made the focal po...
Porcelain, Paste
Exquisite Set of 12 Cobalt & Gilt Dinner Plates
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Richly elegant set of 12 porcelain and gilded dinner plates having dramatic cobalt border with ornate gold decoration. From Paris.
Porcelain
Set of 12 English Raised Gilt Porcelain Dinner Service Plates
By Royal Worcester
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A regal set of 12 elaborately gild service plates, by Royal Worcester. The set with delicate broad gilt borders with a white porcelain background. The mark on the back from 1950.
Porcelain
Set of 12 Minton Gold Rimmed Porcelain Ball Dinner Plates
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
One of Minton's most popular patterns is named "Porcelain Ball” which features a large diameter plate bordered by a gold and white floral decoratio...
Porcelain
$3,840Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 2.75 in Dm 5.6 in
Set of 12 Hand-Painted and Gilt Encrusted Cup and Saucers, 24 Pieces Total
By Lenox's Ceramic Art Company
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A rare and beautiful set of 12 hand-painted porcelain cup and saucers from Lenox. Masterfully painted by their re known artist: William Morley. A thick acid etched 24-karat gold band...
Enamel, Gold
Mushroom Handpainted in Italy Dinner Plate
By Bertrando Di Renzo
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
Italian craftsmanship meets Les-Ottomans in this beautifiul mushroom collection of handpainted plates The charme of the woods on your table in a un...
Ceramic
Mushroom Handpainted in Italy Dinner Plate
By Bertrando Di Renzo
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
Italian craftsmanship meets Les-Ottomans in this beautifiul mushroom collection of handpainted plates The charme of the woods on your table in a un...
Ceramic
Mushroom Handpainted in Italy Dessert Plate
By Bertrando Di Renzo
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
Italian craftsmanship meets Les-Ottomans in this beautifiul mushroom collection of handpainted plates The charme of the woods on your table in a un...
Ceramic
Mushroom Handpainted in Italy Dessert Plate
By Bertrando Di Renzo
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
Italian craftsmanship meets Les-Ottomans in this beautifiul mushroom collection of handpainted plates The charme of the woods on your table in a u...
Ceramic
Mushroom Handpainted in Italy Dinner Plate
By Bertrando Di Renzo
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
Italian craftsmanship meets Les-Ottomans in this beautifiul mushroom collection of handpainted plates The charme of the woods on your table in a unique and special collection create...
Ceramic
Wedgwood Porcelain Tableware Dinner Service For 12 People
By Wedgwood
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Beautiful Wedgwood porcelain tableware dinner service for twelve people with coffee serving set with hand painted design details. The service is in great condition. Maker's mark undersigned. Include 87 pieces all-together. 12 dinner plate 10 3/4" D. 12 Salad plate...
Gold
$950 / set
H 0.75 in Dm 10.5 in
Set of 12 Noritake Morimura Gilt Dinner or Service Plates, Ex-Seidenberg
By Noritake
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine set of 12 Noritake porcelain dinner plates. With transfer painted polychrome flowers to the center & rim, green Rococo style decoration, and raised gold highlights. (Labeled to the reverse with an old Seidenberg sticker pricing the set at $2250.) Simply a wonderful set of dinner service plates! Date: Mid-20th Century Overall Condition: They are in overall good, as-pictured, used estate condition with no chips, cracks, or repairs. Condition Details: There is some noticeable rubbing to the inner gold ring in the centers of most plates. There is some minor rubbing and losses to gilding high points in the raised gold decoration and one small noticeable (a little bit deeper) half-inch scratch to one plate. Otherwise, there are some fine & light surface scratches and other signs of expected light wear consistent with age. Maker: Noritake Morimura Brothers...
Porcelain
Set 12 Minton Pink Raised Gold Dessert or Salad Plates, Antique circa 1910
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Please see our other listings for a single owner collection of gorgeous pink gilded table top pieces. This set of 12 plates is from the storied firm of Minton's England and features ...
Gold, Enamel
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...
Gold, Enamel
Sold
H 1 in Dm 10.5 in
40 Piece Minton Antique Dinner Service, Raised Gilt Bead Swag Design, Circa 1900
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A collection and service for 10, 40 pieces total by the re known Gilded Age porcelain firm of Minton, England. This set was custom ordered through the fine retailer Davis Collamore N...
Gold
Wonderful Service Set 12 Minton Dinner Plates Raised Gold Gilded Regency Urn
By Minton
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful service set of 12 Minton dinner plates having raised gold gilded over a white plate with regency urns and filigree pattern. In excelle...
Porcelain
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H 10 in W 9 in D 14 in
Elegant Minton England Soup Tureen and Platter. Scalloped Gilt Design Circa 1920
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A wonderful serving piece from the re known porcelain firm of Minton, England. This 3 piece set includes the tureen, cover and fitted under plate or platter. Custom ordered through t...
Gold
Majolica Lobster Plate
By Minton
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Antique English majolica tin glazed earthenware Palissy style plate with a lobster and seashells signed Minton on the bottom.
Earthenware
Minton Majolica Malachite Oyster Plate
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica oyster plate which features six shell shaped wells with seashell surrounds. Malachite ground version. Colouration: green, brown, cream, are predominant. The piece bea...
Earthenware
19th Century Minton Ornithological Porcelain Dessert
By Minton
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A partial dessert service by Minton, hand-painted with ornithological scenes after designs by Joseph Smith. The service comprises two small compotes and four dessert dishes. This Minton dessert...
Porcelain
Sold
H 2.25 in W 3.5 in D 4.25 in
142 Pc Ancestral Minton Bone China Dinnerwear Set Service for 22 Tea England 376
By Minton
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage Ancestral pattern dinner set by Minton. S-376, circa 1951-1991. Featuers a fife design painted with blue and red floral pattern and gold rim...
Porcelain
12 Minton England Antique Dinner Plates, Classic Gold Band Design
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
From the storied firm of Minton, one of their timeless and classic designs. This plate features a white and soft cream combination ground with a 24-karat gold encrusted outer band. O...
Gold
6 Minton England Cobalt Blue and Raised Gold Dinner Plates
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Classic and elegant design feature a raised tooled gilt foliate design with a rich cobalt blue collar. Crisp white bone china and a delicate cream leading up to its shoulder. Perfe...
Gold, Enamel
Set of 9 Gilt Encrusted Dessert Plates Antique English, 19th Century
By Minton
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and Classic design featuring raised gilding in a swag design on the collars. Custom ordered through the fine gilded age retailer of Gilman Collamore New York. A great siz...
Gold