DATE CYPHER FOR 1888, GILT CROWNED MINTONS CHINA AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, PATTERN NO. G5145, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, RETAILER'S MARK FOR T. GOODE & CO., LONDON, SIX SIGNED AB FOR ALBOIN BIRKS, SIX SIGNED AM FOR ARTHUR MORGAN

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TWELVE MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE IVORY-GROUND CABINET PLATES
DATE CYPHER FOR 1888, GILT CROWNED MINTONS CHINA AND IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARKS, PATTERN NO. G5145, VARIOUS IMPRESSED CYPHERS, RETAILER'S MARK FOR T. GOODE & CO., LONDON, SIX SIGNED AB FOR ALBOIN BIRKS, SIX SIGNED AM FOR ARTHUR MORGAN
Each finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a putto at leisurely or amorous pursuits, on variant colored reserves and within shaped and gilt surrounds, the gilt rim edged with pendant harebells
9½ in. (24 cm.) diameter (12)

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Lot Essay

See J. Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Year of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 214 for an illustration of similar plates and their accompanying dessert service shown in the Paris Exhibition of 1889. For other sets of plates of the same design see Christie's, London, 22 March 2001, lot 92 and Christie's, New York, 9 April 2008, lot 268.

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