Minton Ceramics
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
Game Pie Dish Majolica Minton Victorian Mid-19th Century
By Minton
Located in Paris, FR
Majolica oval game terrine, featuring a palette of green, blue, brown, and ochre. Adorned with a woven basket encircled by an oak leaf garland, the lid showcases a prominent relief d...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
A Minton Majolica Ale Jug with Five Revelers in Medieval Dress, dated 1862
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
An Early Minton Majolica 'Tavern' Ale Jug, formed as a tapering medieval flagon, the figures molded in high relief and applied, depicting a man and woman dancing, a seated figure wit...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton majolica game pie tureen with hunting dog, late 19th Century
By Minton
Located in Paris, FR
This late 19th-century Minton majolica game pie tureen and cover offer a glimpse into the richness of Victorian dining. The cover features a meticulously molded hunting dog nestled a...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
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 mottled leopard spots of green and dark brown, each well separated by shells and seaweed, the center wel...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Twin Handled Game Pie Dish & Cover
By Minton
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish and impressive antique English majolica pottery game pie dish and cover by renowned and sought after maker Minton and dated 1867. The earthenware dish stands raised on four...
Category
1860s English Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware, Majolica
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, Mottled Leopard Spots, English, Dated 1870
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Oyster Plate, the relief-molded dish with six wells glazed in mottled leopard spots of green and dark brown, each well separated by shells and seaweed, the center wel...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
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 Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
19th Century English Minton Majolica Oyster Plates Pair
By Minton
Located in Winter Park, FL
A pair of late 19th Century English Minton Majolica oyster plates with six oyster wells and a large well for crackers surrounding a center well for sauce. Luminous cream and pink gla...
Category
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
19th Century English Minton Bombay Flow Blue Oyster Plate
By Minton
Located in Winter Park, FL
A Victorian Minton flow blue porcelain oyster plate, with six oyster wells, a center well and a large well for crackers. Decorated in the Japonisme...
Category
Late 19th Century English Japonisme Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Faience, Ceramic
Minton Majolica Volute Shell Spoon Warmer
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica spoon warmer which features a volute shell resting on coral. Colouration: yellow, brown, cream, are predominant. The piece bears maker's marks for the Minton pottery....
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Minton Majolica Stag's Head Small Taza in Cobalt Blue, English, ca. 1868
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Minton Majolica Small Tazza formed as a shallow bowl supported by a horn and naturalistic stag's head, with green stylized leaves, the oval base glazed in cobalt, with gadrooned ed...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Set of Six Antique 19th Century Hand Painted Minton Earthenware Ceramic Tiles
By Minton
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
A set of six (one bonus tile thrown in of a double but in bad condition) Victorian hand painted Minton China Works in Stoke-upon-Trent, England, English tiles designed by John Moyr Smith...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
19th Century English Majolica Oyster Plate Signed Minton
By Minton
Located in Winter Park, FL
A good English Majolica plate, dated 1885 and marked Minton, with turquoise and cobalt blue oyster plate with a central well surrounded by small ochre flowers. Six small and one larg...
Category
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Antique Minton Green Majolica Oyster Plate, circa 1860's-1870's
By Minton
Located in Ross, CA
Minton Majolica six well emerald green oyster plate, sold individually but each was made in England in between 1867 and the 1870's. The wells have a mottled green-brown glaze with sh...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Minton Majolica Wine Ewer Designed by Hugues Protât, English, circa 1875
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Minton Majolica Wine Ewer Designed by Hugues Protât (active 1835-90), English, ca. 1875, the body molded as a wine barrel with grape vines to the center, surmounted by four Bacchanalian cherubs, with a Renaissance-style shaped and scrolled spout; the entire piece from the pedestal to the spout is entwined with purple-glazed grapes and green leaves with tendrils, the handle formed by overlapping vines; the reverse with impressed marks, 'MINTONS' and design number '900,' which corresponds to 'Barrel Jug with Cupids (M)' as recorded in the Minton Majolica Ornamental Shape and Design books and partially reprinted in Bergesen.
BOOK REFERENCES:
Victoria Bergesen, MAJOLICA: British, Continental, and American Wares. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, p. 181. Minton Ornamental Shapes (i.e., design numbers) listed in Appendix D, pp. 180-182.
Joan Jones, MINTON: THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF DESIGN AND PRODUCTION. Shrewsbury, England: Swan Hill Press, 1993, p. 348.
Susan Weber et al., MAJOLICA MANIA: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, Volume Two, fig. 12.63. Full-page color photo of this actual piece. The author incorrectly dates the production of this example as 1863, but as it is impressed 'MINTONS,' it would have to be later than 1873 when the 'S' was added Minton.
Victoria Cecil, MINTON MAJOLICA, Jeremy Cooper Ltd., Exhibition 7-26 June 1982, Galen Place, London, p. 48, cat. No. 17.
Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica, A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 41.
The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue for the International Exhibition 1862...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Set of Three Antique English Minton Plates, circa 1881
By Minton
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Set of three antique Minton English plates with chrysanthemum motif, yellow border, black trim. Retail shop stickers on verso.
Dimensions: 10" W
Condi...
Category
19th Century Regency Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large Victorian Ceramic Tile Panel by John Moyr Smith for Mintons
By John Moyr Smith, Minton
Located in London, GB
Large Victorian ceramic tile panel by John Moyr Smith for Mintons
English, circa 1878
Panel: height 83cm, width 62cm, depth 0.5cm
Frame: height 89cm, wid...
Category
Late 19th Century English High Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
Minton, 'Faisan', Aesthetic Movement Tea Cups & Saucers, U.K., Circa 1880
By Minton
Located in Chatham, ON
MINTON - 'Faisan' - Rare antique Aesthetic Movement ceramic tea cups and saucers - set of four - transfer decorated in brown on a cream ground - elabor...
Category
Late 19th Century British Aesthetic Movement Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Minton, A. D. Holland, Hand Painted China Cabinet Plate, U.K, circa 1950's
By Minton
Located in Chatham, ON
MINTON - Arthur Dale Holland (Artist/Painter, 1896-1979) - Fine and rare vintage bone china cabinet plate - hand painted - featuring a display of fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Romantic Minton Ceramics
Materials
Gold Leaf
Georgian Minton Porcelain Coffee Can Hand Painted in Pattern 641, Ca 1805
By Minton
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a finely painted porcelain coffee can made by the Minton factory, England, in the reign of George 111 in the early 19th century, circa 1805
Straight sided coffee cans wer...
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Large Antique Majolica Planter Made Circa 1880 Turquoise Ground & Green Leaves
By Minton
Located in Katonah, NY
This exquisite 19th-century majolica jardiniere and underplate by Minton was handpainted in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England, around 1880. This jardiniere measures an impressive 17" across the handles
it is adorned with a delightful design of green oak leaves and light brown acorns that stand out beautifully against the beautiful turquoise background.
The handles, in the shape of twisting oak branches...
Category
Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Small Jardinière Flower Trough Singed, Dated 1871
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Small Jardiniere, realistically molded as a simulated water trough formed by faux wooden staves and pegs, overlain with budding Hawthrone branches, the corners formed as mossy posts, banded near the base with pegged logs, the interior glazed in Minton Blue (turquoise); impressed marks to reverse: 'MINTON,' with British Registry Number for 16 April 1870 (when the design was registered), Minton date cipher for 1871, and the Design Number, '1563,' which corresponds to the entry, 'FLOWER TROUGH...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Pair of Antique 19th Century John Moyr Smith Ceramic Tiles, Circa 1877
By Minton
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
A pair of large Victorian hand painted Minton China Works in Stoke-upon-Trent, England, English tiles based on Scott's popular Waverly Novels, designed ...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware, Ceramic
Minton Majolica Mushroom Tazza with Three-Frog Base, English, Dated 1868
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Taza, molded as an inverted mushroom, the bowl interior glazed in orange, with three naturalistically modeled and glazed frogs around the stem,...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
A Minton Majolica Turquoise Ground Snake-Handled Jardinière, Dated 1858
By Gottfried Semper, Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Minton Majolica Large Turquoise Ground Jardinière Designed by Gottfried Semper (German 1803 -1879), the ovid-form body applied with entwined snakes forming the handles, the rim wit...
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Arts & Crafts Minton Pottery Kingfisher Tile Designed by Christopher Dresser
By Minton, Christopher Dresser
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
An Arts & Crafts Minton tile in the Kingfisher pattern, designed by Christopher Dresser, ca. 1870.
Arts & Crafts designer Christopher Dresser’s works were true to the movement’s c...
Category
Late 19th Century British Arts and Crafts Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Minton Majolica Medieval Style Large Cabinet Plate, Dated 1867
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Cabinet Plate, with a central medieval design in émail-ombrant, a difficult technique achieved by flooding majolica glazes over an intaglio design, causing the impres...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Majolica "Cockerel & Monkey" Teapot by Minton
By Minton
Located in Paris, FR
"Cockerel & Monkey Minton Majolica Teapot the protrusive cockerel head with forming the spout, a smiling, like if he was riding the cockerel, is...
Category
Late 20th Century English Victorian Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Parian Figure of Don Quixote's "Dorothea" by John Bell
By Minton, John Bell
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Minton Parian figure of Don Quixote's "Dorothea" by John Bell, a fine example of Parian, after a John Bell sculpture.
Category
Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Arts & Crafts Minton Pottery Tile Designed by Christopher Dresser
By Minton, Christopher Dresser
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A Minton pottery tile designed by Christopher Dresser in 1873.
This tile, designed by Christopher Dresser and made in 1873, exemplifies the Aesthetic Movement ethos of the home as...
Category
Late 19th Century British Aesthetic Movement Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
Mid-19th Century Minton Victorian Majolica Game Pie Dish
By Minton
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A majolica game pie dish made by Minton & Co. in 1864. The dish takes the form of a wicker basket and is covered with oak leaves, acorns, vines,...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware, Majolica, Pottery
Minton Majolica 'Bacchus' Vase Cobalt Blue-Ground, English, Dated 1856
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica 'Bacchus' vase cobalt blue-ground, English, dated 1856, of urn-shaped form, molded and applied with three satyr masks, and festoons of pendant fruit, suspending rope-...
Category
Early 19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Platter with Lattice Work and Daisy Chain Border, Dated 1880
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica platter, molded in high relief with a central medallion of leaves and a daisy, surrounded by basketweave latticework, with a continuous chain of daisies forming the b...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
George 111 Minton Porcelain Coffee Can Hand Painted in Pattern 791, Ca 1805
By Minton
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a finely painted porcelain coffee can made by the Minton factory, England, in the reign of George 111 in the early 19th century, circa 1805
Straight sided coffee cans wer...
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century English Minton Framed Painted Ceramic Wall Plaques
By Minton
Located in Dallas, TX
Crafted in England circa 1880, and set in the original carved oak frames, each plaque is hand painted and stamped on the back Minton, London, England. Each porcelain, signed by the a...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Oak
Minton Majolica Medieval Style Large Cabinet Plate, Dated 1867
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica cabinet plate, with a central medieval design in émail-ombrant, a difficult technique achieved by flooding majolica glazes over an intaglio design, causing the impres...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Hanging Planter Basket, Bird's Nest, Cherries, Dated 1872
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica Hanging Planter/Basket, the planter molded as a birds nest with red glazed cherries and green leaves, the interior glazed in turquoise, t...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Pair of Minton Bird Tiles Designed by Christopher Dresser, circa 1875
By Christopher Dresser, Minton
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A pair of framed Minton bird tiles designed by Christopher Dresser ca. 1875. These tiles are beautiful examples of Arts & Crafts pottery.
Arts & Cr...
Category
Late 19th Century British Arts and Crafts Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware
English Victorian Majolica Game Pie Dish Made by Minton & Co.
By Minton
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A majolica game pie dish made by Minton & Co. in 1874. The dish takes the form of a wicker basket and is covered with oak leaves, acorns, vines,...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware, Majolica, Pottery
Majolica "Cat & Mouse" Teapot by Minton
By Minton
Located in Paris, FR
"Cat & Mouse" Majolica teapot, blue Drakkar-shaped. The bow of the boat forming the spout, the boat is decorated on sides with a mice frieze. On the yellow handle, a red and white ca...
Category
Late 20th Century English Victorian Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Antique & Superb Condition 7 Piece Mintons Arts and Crafts Ceramic Bathroom Set
By Minton
Located in Lisse, NL
Great shape and marvelous colors, Mintons bathroom set.
There is a special reason why this extremely rare and comprehensive set by Minton is in such amazing condition. Mind you, thi...
Category
Early 20th Century British Arts and Crafts Minton Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Victorian Antique Majolica Jardinière of the Four Seasons by Minton
By Minton
Located in London, GB
Victorian antique Majolica jardinière of the Four Seasons by Minton
English, c. 1905
Measures: Height 39cm, diameter 32cm
This charact...
Category
Early 1900s English Renaissance Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
Minton Majolica Centerpiece Tray 15-in, Lotus Flower on Green Ground, Dated 1863
By Minton
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Minton Majolica centerpiece, naturalistically modeled as a pond bed with simulated water glazed in cyan blue, with green glazed lily pads and flowering pond lilies (lotus), and reeds glazed in various shades of green, with brown and ochre-glazed cattails molded in high relief to form the border, with a central lotus flower glazed in white and blue, concealing a solid brass original fitting for a candle, doubling as a receptacle for an (optional) additional tier which would have screwed into the fitting; the fitting is removable. Impressed marks to reverse: 'MINTON' and Minton date cypher for 1863; an impressed 'A' possibly for the designer, Thomas Allen...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
English Majolica Cherub Dish by Minton
By Minton
Located in Austin, TX
A fine Majolica serving platter or bowl by the celebrated English pottery firm, Minton.
Featuring a design of a recumbent cherub or child clutching grapes upon a bed of grape leaves...
Category
19th Century English Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery, Ceramic
19th Century Majolica Jardinière by Minton and Carlo Marochetti
By Minton
Located in London, GB
This exquisite jardinière was manufactured by the celebrated English company Minton, who are famous for their ceramics. It was designed by Baron Carlo Marochetti (1805-1867), an Italian-born sculptor who worked in London in the latter part of his career. His most famous work is the bronze sculpture of Richard the Lionheart...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Minton Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
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 Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
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 Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
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 Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
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 Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Minton ceramics for sale on 1stDibs.
Minton ceramics 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 ceramics, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original ceramics by Minton were created in the Victorian style in united kingdom during the 19th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider ceramics by Wedgwood, George Jones, and George Jones & Sons. Prices for Minton ceramics can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $357 and can go as high as $19,112, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $1,400.
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Questions About Minton Ceramics
- 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.