Rare Childs Miniature Dinner Set Plate FLOW BLUE MARBLE SEAWEED Minton 1840

Description

Rare Child's Miniature
Dinner Set Plate
FLOW BLUE MARBLE SEAWEED
Minton Staffordshire England c 1838
This is a very early miniature dinner
plate
made for childs play or to accessorize an elegant Victorian dollhouse. The
plate
is made of early English ironstone,
transfer printed in deep cobalt flow blue in the Seaweed or Marble pattern, also sometimes called Cracked Ice.
Measuring 4 inches across, a
beautiful example of early 19th century miniature flow blue made for dinner party and doll house play.
Unmarked except for
an impressed NB ('new blanche')
, nothing definitiviely identifies the maker although the form and references in Lechler’s book English Toy China and Punchard’s book Playtime Pottery & Porcelain from the UK and US illustrates examples of the pattern referencing Minton
or Keeling
. Other makers produced similar sets of teawares and tablewares but the form of these pieces is generally recognized as Minton.
The
plate
was played with by generations of children and is
in great
overall condition with only
minor typical glaze crazing
consistent with age and prior use. Minor firing imperfections original to the making. A
hard to find pattern for
a flow blue childs or doll size set to finish a Victorian dollhouse display.
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