A MINTON ENCAUSTIC STONEWARE BREAD-PLATE designed by Augustus Welby Pugin, with a bright-blue border and the proverb Waste Not Want Not in gothic script divided by pentafoils within circles, the brown centre with eight wheat-ears issuing from a central medallion within a wreath of fronded foliage (chips to footrim), impressed 430, 1849-1851

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A MINTON ENCAUSTIC STONEWARE BREAD-PLATE designed by Augustus Welby Pugin, with a bright-blue border and the proverb Waste Not Want Not in gothic script divided by pentafoils within circles, the brown centre with eight wheat-ears issuing from a central medallion within a wreath of fronded foliage (chips to footrim), impressed 430, 1849-1851
13¼in. (33.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. Clive Wainwright and Paul Atterbury, Pugin, A Gothic Passion, London 1994, for an example in the Victoria and Albert Museum. See also Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin (Eds.), The Dictionary of Minton, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 296, pl. 56.
An example sold in these Rooms, 15 July 1993, lot 133

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