A MINTON ENCAUSTIC STONEWARE BREAD PLATE
A MINTON ENCAUSTIC STONEWARE BREAD PLATE

1849-1851, DESIGNED BY AUGUSTUS WELBY PUGIN

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A MINTON ENCAUSTIC STONEWARE BREAD PLATE
1849-1851, designed by Augustus Welby Pugin
The blue border with the proverb 'waste not want not' in Gothic script divided by rosettes, the brown center with a wheat pinwheel, within a wreath of fronded foliage
13.1/8in. (33.6cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

See Clive Wainwright and Paul Atterbury, A Gothic Passion, London, 1994, for an example in the Victorian Albert Museum. See also Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin (Eds.), The Dictionary of Minton, Woodbury, 1990, p. 296, pl. 56 and anon. sale, Christie's London, 3 November 1994, lot 587

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