A Minton Lustred Pottery Twin Handle Bowl 1938

Description

Heading :  A Minton Byzantine Lustred Pottery Twin Handled Bowl designed by John Wadsworth
Date : 1938
Period : George VI
Marks :Black printed Globe mark. green painted numerals
Origin : Stoke Staffordshire
Colour :Polychrome .lustred and gilt
Pattern : Stylised floret and leaf band on a stippled powder blue ground

Features:Enamelled colours and gilt handles applied on-glaze
Condition :Excellent. There is a small indentation in the foot. It is gilded and under glaze. a manufacturing flaw
Restoration None
Dimensions : Height 8.8cm. diameter of bowl excluding handles 19.9cm
Weight : 628

References: Minton – The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production by Joan Jones Page 272

Eric Knowles Comments

John Wadsworth was a prolific and talented designer for Minton and his Byzantine pattern was produced in several colours including blue. pink. green and hazel brown. According to The Pottery Gazette .this range was ‘well above the ordinary in the field of earthenware from the aspects of both design and craftsmanship. it will vie with reallyhigh class china but is correspondingly less expensive’