A MINTON BOTANICAL PART TEA AND COFFEE-SERVICE painted in a bright palette with loose bouquets of specimen flowers beneath a band of gilt foliate ornament and with gilt rims, comprising an oval teapot, cover and stand (minor cracks near spout, stand with rim restoration), an oval two-handled sugar-bowl and cover (hair-line crack to base), an oval milk-jug (small hair-line crack to base), a slop-bowl, a saucer-dish (riveted crack to rim and stained), four teacups (one with slight crack, one stained), four coffee-cans (one with rim crack), four saucers (two stained and one also cracked), blue interlaced L's enclosing M marks, pattern no. 786, circa 1812

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A MINTON BOTANICAL PART TEA AND COFFEE-SERVICE painted in a bright palette with loose bouquets of specimen flowers beneath a band of gilt foliate ornament and with gilt rims, comprising an oval teapot, cover and stand (minor cracks near spout, stand with rim restoration), an oval two-handled sugar-bowl and cover (hair-line crack to base), an oval milk-jug (small hair-line crack to base), a slop-bowl, a saucer-dish (riveted crack to rim and stained), four teacups (one with slight crack, one stained), four coffee-cans (one with rim crack), four saucers (two stained and one also cracked), blue interlaced L's enclosing M marks, pattern no. 786, circa 1812

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For a pair of spill-vases probably painted by the same hand see Geoffrey A. Godden, Minton Pottery and Porcelain of the First Period 1793-1850, pl. 57

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