Lot Details
Lot 80
Minton Majolica Turquoise-Ground Butterfly Plate
Designed by William S. Coleman, shape no. 1545, date cypher for 1870
Naturalistically modeled as an outstretched butterfly resting on a daisy blossom with radiating green leaves, impressed uppercase mark and cyphers, shape no., and black painted G. Diameter 9 3/8 inches.
William Stephen Coleman (1829-1904), English painter, illustrator and designer. In 1871, the Mintons Art Pottery Studio in Kensington Gore was established under his direction.
Literature:
Marilyn G. Karmason, Antiques, Victorian Majolica, February 1990, pl. VII and the corresponding design drawing from the Minton shape book, fig. 3. The Minton Archive - Certificate of Registration of Design at the Patent Office: Registered Number 238436. Butterfly plate 1545.
Reference:
Victoria Cecil, Minton 'Majolica', Jeremy Cooper Ltd., Exhibition 7-26 June 1982, Galen Place, London, p. 15 for a design drawing of this form. Joan Jones, Minton: Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, p. 67, the caption noting that William Stephen Coleman received £20 for the design of the 'Butterfly' plate.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
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