collection of Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

Additional Image:

Detail of cup and handle

 

Detail of the saucer.

 

Shape Type: Breakfast & Tea Wares

Pattern Type: Plants

Date: c. 1880-85

Dimensions:

  • Diameter: 4.72 in (12.00 cm)
  • Height: 2.36 in (6.00 cm)

Maker: Minton

Maker's Mark:

Painted
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Description:

Bone china coffee cup and saucer.  The underglaze blue printed design depicts seaweed-like plant sprays falling from the rims of the cup and saucer.  The molded handle is of unusual shape with 'straps' modeled across the top and bottom terminals.

Both pieces carry the red enamel painted fractional pattern number 42702 over 1

The saucer has an impressed mark which is barely legible and reads MINTON, There...


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