SIX MINTONS MONOGRAMMED TURQUOISE-GROUND RETICULATED PLATES

DATE CYPHERS FOR 1879, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS AND VARIOUS CYPHERS, PATTERN NO. G739, RETAILER'S MARK FOR AB DANIELL & SON, 46 WIGMORE ST., LONDON, THE PAINTING ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY MITCHELL

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SIX MINTONS MONOGRAMMED TURQUOISE-GROUND RETICULATED PLATES
DATE CYPHERS FOR 1879, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS AND VARIOUS CYPHERS, PATTERN NO. G739, RETAILER'S MARK FOR AB DANIELL & SON, 46 WIGMORE ST., LONDON, THE PAINTING ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY MITCHELL
Each finely painted after Sir Edwin Landseer with either portraits of dogs or monkeys, including There's No Place Like Home and Alexander and Diogenes, within pierced gilt enriched basketweave borders
10 in. (25.7 cm.) diameter (6)

Lot Essay

See Joan Jones, Minton, One Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 65 for a similar service inspired by Landseer that was commissioned by Queen Victoria, circa 1865, for use at Balmoral Castle and Sandringham. Landseer's Alexander and Diogenes (1850) is in the collection of the National Gallery in London, England.

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