A Minton Pottery plate designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, printed to the rim with Gothic

A Minton Pottery plate designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, printed to the rim with Gothic Revival flowers and inscribed A merry heard doeth good like medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones, in green and gold on a white ground, impressed factory marks, printed regd diamond, hairline crack and chip to back of rim, date code for 1845, regd diamond for 1844, 26cm. diam.

Provenance

Private collection.

Literature

The John Scott Collection, Architect-Designers From Pugin to Voysey, volume 8, The Fine Art Society, catalogue no.30 for a comparable plate with different motto.