DATE CYPHERS FOR 1880, PUCE CROWNED GLOBE AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, IRON-RED PATTERN NO. G3229, SIGNED W.(ILLIAM) MUSSILL

William Mussill (1828-1906) is recorded as an artist specializing in botanical and ornithological compositions in the Barbotine style at Minton from 1870 until 1900. He also 'excelled in the painting of...fish, shells, fruit and game.' See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 71.