Arts & Crafts - 19th June 2013
Lot 119
A Minton's encaustic bread plate designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Estimate £1,000 - £2,000 | Hammer £1000
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Description
A Minton's encaustic bread plate designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, circular the rim inscribed Waste Not Want Not the well with radiating ears of corn, in rust and blue on a sand ground impressed 430 to reverse 33.5cm. diam.
Literature
Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright Pugin Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition catalogue, page 143 plate 260 for a comparable plate.
Charlotte Gere and Michael Whiteway Nineteenth Century Design from Pugin to Mackintosh, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 53 plate 49 for a comparable example.