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Minton : Staffordshire (c. 1793-1873)
Pair of bon-bon dishes 1850-51
Glazed and unglazed bone china, painted in enamels, partly gilded | 21.6 x 20.7 x 15.3 cm (whole object) | RCIN 58104
China Corridor, Windsor Castle
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A pair of parcel gilt biscuit porcelain bon-bon dishes; a boy holding a tortoise and a girl with a shell at her ear stand back-to-back, a scallop shell resting on a foliate scroll to either side; upon an oval turquoise bone china base with gadrooning.
Provenance
Part of the dessert service known as the Victoria pattern dessert service purchased by Queen Victoria from Minton and Co's stand at the Great Exhibition in 1851. She subsequently gave sixty nine pieces of the service to the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I, for whom it was originally intended, before commissioning more for herself.
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Creator(s)
(porcelain manufacturer)(designer)Acquirer(s)
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Medium and techniques
Glazed and unglazed bone china, painted in enamels, partly gilded
Measurements
21.6 x 20.7 x 15.3 cm (whole object)
Place of Production
Staffordshire [England]
