Minton ceramics

Minton Pottery

The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery

1) 1873; 2) circa 1940; 3) 1877

1) A majolica heron stick stand with a life-size heron standing by bulrushes and holding a struggling fish in its beak; 2) pâte-sur-pâte vase by John Wadsworth, director at Minton in 1935, decorated with two men, one white, one brown, tending tall grasses; 3) a plaque symbolising 'Autumn' by William Wise, from the 'Seasons' series of plaques, finely painted in the Art Pottery style with a girl harvester wearing a broad-brimmed hat holding a golden sheaf of corn with brambles in the background.

• Artists Include:
• John Wadsworth
• William Wise

• Medium: porcelain
• Dimensions: 1) 98cm; 2) 9.7cm; 3) 51.5cm
• Art Fund Grant: £6280 ( Total: £11,615)
• ArtFunded in: 2004
• Vendor: Bonhams

Provenance

Minton factory; Minton museum; Bonham's, 2004.

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