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Minton Majolica Twin Handled Game Pie Dish & Cover

Name: Minton Majolica Twin Handled Game Pie Dish & Cover
Brand: Minton
Price: 2668.33 AUD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (173 reviews)

About the Item

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 small corner twig feet and is of oval basket shape widening to an everted rim. The basketweave is intertwined with fruiting leafy oak stems which also form handles at either end. A cover sits within a top recess and is finely molded in relief with a dead rabbit and two birds set against an oak leaf and fern ground with an oak stem forming a handle. The dish is beautifully and richly hand painted in bright majolica colors with a painted green and brown body and naturalistic colors to the birds and rabbit on the cover. The inner dish, inner cover and base are painted in bright rich turquoise glazes and the base has impressed MINTON marks along with a date code mark for 1867. Provenance: Private Collection, Heydon Grange, Norfolk, England and acquired through the UK Art Market. In good condition with customary wear and aging and with a tiny glaze chip to the edge of one bird wing which could be easily touched in.

Creator:

Minton (Maker)

Dimensions:

Height: 5.91 in (15 cm)Width: 11.82 in (30 cm)Depth: 7.09 in (18 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Earthenware,Majolica,Glazed,Hand-Crafted,Hand-Painted

Place of Origin:

England

Period:

1860-1869

Date of Manufacture:

1867

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Minor structural damages. In good condition with customary wear and aging and with a tiny glaze chip to the edge of one bird wing which could be easily touched in.

Seller Location:

Bishop's Stortford, GB

Reference Number:

Seller: CE23540 1stDibs: LU1328237643462

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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.

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