Minton Ware
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Minton Ware |
A cream-coloured and blue-printed earthenware maiolica, bone china,
and Parian porcelain produced at a factory founded in 1793 in
Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, by Thomas
Minton.
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Minton popularised the famous
so-called Willow pattern.
In the 1820s he started production of bone china; this
early Minton is regarded as comparable to French Sèvres, by which it was
greatly influenced.
Minton's was the only English china factory of the
19th century to employ a Sèvres technical process called pâte-sur-pâte
(which is a painted decoration in white clay slip instead of enamel before
glazing).
The Minton factory was the most popular supply source
in the 19th century of dinnerware made to order for embassies and for heads of
state.
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