A MINTONS RETICULATED PLATE painted by Antonin Boullemier with a fairy chasing a butterfly among pink flowers and grass, the border with a gilt loop, line and dot pattern within a seeded rim pierced with key-pattern and ovals, signed, impressed registration mark for 1874, gilt printed marks, manufactured for Gillman Collamore & Co., New York, pattern number C394, the decoration circa 1891

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A MINTONS RETICULATED PLATE painted by Antonin Boullemier with a fairy chasing a butterfly among pink flowers and grass, the border with a gilt loop, line and dot pattern within a seeded rim pierced with key-pattern and ovals, signed, impressed registration mark for 1874, gilt printed marks, manufactured for Gillman Collamore & Co., New York, pattern number C394, the decoration circa 1891
9½in. (24.3cm.) diam.

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The son of a decorator at Sèvres, where he worked as an apprentice, Boullemier moved to England in 1871 and joined the Minton factory where he specialised in painting portraits and cupids. Cf. Geoffrey A. Godden, Victorian Porcelain, London, 1961, pl. 47 for a similar plate

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