Lot Essay
See Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, The Dictionary of Minton, Suffolk, 1990, p. 79 for a period image of the A.B. Daniell's stand at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1776, including at least two examples of the present form. For an engraved illustration of this form in the Minton Majolica Catalogue 1880's, see Appendix 2, p. 331. Also see Joan Jones, Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 143.