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“Lindsay Tray” in the Renaissance Revival Style

Manufacturer (English, founded 1793)
Designer (English, 1824 - 1913)
CultureEnglish
OriginStoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Date1863
MediumBuff-coloured earthenware, overglaze enamels
DimensionsOverall: 5 x 45.1 cm (1 15/16 x 17 3/4 in.)
MarkingsImpressed MINTON and year cipher for 1863
DescriptionMinton Majolica dish, round, with raised oval panel in the centre panel, surrounded by a beadwork border in the cavetto. The broad rim is moulded and applied with a heraldic shield. There is a pair of naturalistic scallop shells and seaweed, and another shell opening to reveal a putto surrounded by two fish. The rim border is moulded with tiny alternating scallop shells. The decoration is in polychrome enamel majolica glazes, and painted in the centre with Venus and Neptune attended by putti. The cavetto area is decorated with two entwined pairs of mermaids and mermen, and the rim is painted in bianco-sopra-bianco, with starfish (?), and decorative details picked out in ochre and blue.

Credit LinePurchased with a gift from N. Robert Cumming and with funds raised by the Twelve Trees of Christmas
Object numberG97.2.1
Classifications
European Ceramics
Sub-classification
English Earthenware
Status
On view
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