Lot 136
Henry Stacey Marks (1829-1898) Seven Mintons chargers depicting Shakespeares Seven Ages of Man, 1873,
Auction: 19 April 2005 at 14:00 BST
Description
for Mintons Art Pottery Studio, London,each painted in gilt and couloured enamels, and signed H.S.Marks, impressed and painted factory and painters marks verso (7)
Dimensions
49cm diameter
Footnote
Provenance; Minton & Co. Museum, Stoke on Trent (de-accessed 1999)
Exhibited: International Exhibition, Vienna, 1873
Literature:
Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin 'A Dictionary of Minton, 1990, p. 284, shown in situ at the Minton Museum circa 1960, p. 133
Marks, H.S., 'Pen and Pencil Sketches', 1894, p.133
Note: Marks originally created these designs for the painter Miles Birkett Foster for his house at Witley, Surrey. They were also used at Eaton Hall, Cheshire for the Duke of Westminster. The designs were reproduced on a series of rectangular plaques and on vases by Mintons Art Pottery Studio.