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Antique Minton Dessert Plate with Handpainted Swags of Flowers & Cobalt Ground
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Antique Minton Dessert Plate with Handpainted Swags of Flowers & Cobalt Ground

19th century
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An antique Minton dessert plate, handpainted with flowers to the centre and bordered with cobalt panels and swags of tiny handpainted flowers and foliage. There is a date mark to the rear, but it is unclear, possibly 1883.

Excellent condition; no chips, cracks or crazing. Gilt and pattern in good order.

Can be shipped safely worldwide.

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White Robin Antiques has dated this Minton Cobalt Dessert Plate to the 1880s.

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SA1232107
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VAT Margin Scheme: 381183692

Description
An antique Minton dessert plate, handpainted with flowers to the centre and bordered with cobalt panels and swags of tiny handpainted flowers and foliage. There is a date mark to the rear, but it is unclear, possibly 1883.

Excellent condition; no chips, cracks or crazing. Gilt and pattern in good order.

Can be shipped safely worldwide.

Date of Manufacture

White Robin Antiques has dated this Minton Cobalt Dessert Plate to the 1880s.

Reference Numbers
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SA1232107
White Robin Antiques
Sellingantiques verified Since Nov 2020

Vat margin scheme: 381183692

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An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim.
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Archive I An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim.

Antique Minton Dessert Plate with Handpainted Swags of Flowers & Cobalt Ground

Archive II An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim. View II
Archive III An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim. View III
Archive IV An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim. View IV
Archive V An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim. View V
Archive VI An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim. View VI
Archive VII An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim. View VII
Archive VIII An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim. View VIII
Archive IX An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim. View IX
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Lincolnshire
United Kingdom
Verified Since Nov 2020
Items For Sale 36
Items Sold 70
White Robin Antiques
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An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim.
Antique Minton dessert plate with handpainted swags of flowers & cobalt ground
Ref: SA1232107
An antique circular porcelain dessert plate featuring a hand-painted central floral spray, delicate floral swags, and a scalloped cobalt blue and gilded rim.
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  • ObjectPlates & Dishes
  • Period19th century
  • StyleVictorian Neo-Rococo
  • MaterialBone China, Enamel, Gilt
  • ColourCobalt Blue, White, Gold
  • MotifsFloral swags, Cobalt rim panels, Gilded scrollwork, Central floral spray

This Victorian Neo-Rococo dessert plate is an antique bone china piece with a glossy white glaze and a vibrant cobalt blue ground. The rim presents a scalloped edge highlighted with burnished gilt scrollwork and framing handpainted swags of tiny pink, blue and orange flowers and green foliage. A detailed central spray of polychrome flowers sits neatly in the middle of the well, featuring purple, pink and yellow blossoms. The plate rests upright on two small white display stands against a neutral background. There is a date mark on the reverse of the plate, alongside the clear white expanse of the ceramic body. Due to the delicacy of the porcelain, the plate measures approximately 23 cm across, making it a compact display item. The object sits well on a sideboard top in a traditional English Country House interior, bringing refined floral decoration to a dining room or living space as a decorative cabinet or display piece.

Minton was a prominent English ceramics manufacturer established in 1793 in Staffordshire, renowned for producing high-grade bone china and intricate dinnerware throughout the nineteenth century.

Nineteenth-century English dessert plates were typically crafted from fine bone china, decorated using hand-applied mineral enamel pigments, and finished with burnished gold leaf gilding.

Authentic Victorian Minton ceramics usually feature painted or impressed manufacturer marks on the reverse, precise hand-gilding along the edges, and detailed enamel brushwork.

Decorative cabinet plates can be displayed on plate stands within a glaze-fronted cabinet, arranged in a wall-mounted display group, or styled flat on a sideboard top as a decorative accent.

Clean hand-painted porcelain gently by hand using warm water and mild liquid detergent, avoiding abrasive sponges, chemical cleaners, or dishwashers that can damage gilding and enamel work.
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