Lot 95

Overall condition good. Small chip to the rim and base of one Derby plate. Minor loss to gilt.


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The collection of the late Patricia Begg, OAM

Ceramic & Glass Circle "Decoration of Excellence" Geelong Art Gallery and Ballarat Fine Art Gallery 1995 (Exhibit no. 109) (Minton)

For a similar example of the Minton plate please see Joan Jones, "Minton The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production."
For reference to the Derby plates please see Geoffrey A . Godden Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks p 201

Thomas Steele who was apprenticed at Wedgwood in 1787, went to Derby to become one of their foremost fruit and flower painters. He moved to Rockingham and then to Minton where he stayed until 1850