Lot Essay
See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 214 for pieces from a dessert service, decorated by Lawrence Birks, for Minton, exhibited by Thomas Goode & Co. at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. The finely detailed small panels and beautifully executed gilt decoration that Minton and its artisans were famous for are all combined in the present lot. See also, the note to the following lot.