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The Minton Archive @MintonArchive

Giving you a first glimpse into the records of the Minton factory. Part of the cultural heritage of Stoke-on-Trent.

Joined February 2017
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Happy New Year everyone 🥳 Folio Friday is back early doors with a double helping of artwork and a shape book photograph thrown in for good measure - lovely stuff! themintonarchive.org.uk/foli…
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🎄Merry Christmas one and all!🎄 We've left our traditional festive catch-up veeeery late this year, but if you've been here for any part of December you'll know why 😉 If you need a moment of calm today, why not reminisce over the year of Minton with us? themintonarchive.org.uk/merr…
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It's Christmas Eve and we've just revealed the final Majolica Box item on our anniversary advent calendar, meaning this very special folio is now viewable online in its entirety! Not a bad way to conclude our website's 10th anniversary celebrations 🥳 themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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Our penultimate Majolica Box advent calendar reveal is another design "coloured for the women to work from", a stunning artwork that was sensitively cleaned and conserved as part of our Majolica International Society & @TheNMCT -funded work programme: themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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Christmas is fast approaching, and so too is the end of our Majolica Box advent calendar 😭 This is no time to be maudlin however - not when we can explore today's wonderful artwork and see its various annotations to help with "colouring by the women": themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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There've been 3 full weeks of daily Majolica highlights now; don't you wish they could go on forever?! Alas, that's not how advent calendars work, nor do we have an infinite supply of majolica artworks... more's the pity, when they can look like this: themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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There are only four days left in our anniversary advent calendar, and behind today's door is an incredible garden seat design - we've definitely saved the very best for this final part of our Christmas countdown! 🎄🗓️🎄themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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Today's anniversary advent highlight is the only (unmounted) tracing found in the Majolica Box - a very delicate item and one of the few that we happened to capture before it was conserved: themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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Day 18 of our unique 10th anniversary advent calendar features a jug design in a similar colour and style to the "Water Gods" plate artwork from day 9 - so of course we put them next to each other on our virtual tabletop 🤓 themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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We're dishing up another advent calendar artwork in the form of this Majolica Box "design for maiolica plate", originally drawn in 1868 and now available in hi-res detail on our website 🔍 themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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Designed by Minton artist Thomas Kirkby for a large circular dish, today's advent artwork features a highly detailed centre - perfect for exploration via our hi-res viewer! - depicting a scene from the Greek myth The Judgment of Paris: themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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Behind today's advent calendar door is a rather more technical-looking artwork than some of the others we've seen so far, with a couple of plan sections included and plenty of guide lines keeping everything straight and true: themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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Today's advent calendar artwork is described in the 1871 Art Catalogue as one of nine drawings "for small dishes", and if you zoom the hi-res viewer out slightly you'll see one of the others sitting next to it. It's almost like we planned it this way 😉 themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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We have no idea what today's advent calendar artwork is meant to be, but it certainly packs a lot into a single design: a shell, a satchel, chains, horns, tassels... it's like some sort of majolica fever dream! 🤯themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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We're halfway through our Majolica Box advent already, so today we're revealing two majolica artworks instead of just the one 😊 Both are very similar copy designs of the "Azeglio Vase", so it seemed silly not to release them both at the same time! themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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Behind today's Majolica Box advent calendar door is an illustration of a "modelled basket of flowers", very similar in style (and with the preceding class letter reference number) to our highlight from day three: themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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Our Majolica Box advent series has now reached double figures - hooray 🥳 Today's highlight is another without an Art Catalogue entry, but it more than makes up for this lack of written info with its lovely (hi-res!) details: themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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We definitely need to get a hang of this Majolica Box Advent scheduling malarky 😅 Anyway... yesterday's beautiful fountain design (themintonarchive.org.uk/10u-…) has today been joined by a yellow-and-blue plate design with a special Liverpudlian connection: themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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Can you believe we've had a week of Majolica Box advent surprises already?! This abstract splash of watercolour is a very, very small part of a design for a vase that features storks, lilies, and a "Japanese sea": themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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Today's Majolica Box advent calendar is the first without a class letter annotation, meaning there's no description in the 1871 Art Catalogue for us to check out. All's not lost however; we've shared a top tip for the hi-res viewer instead 🤓 themintonarchive.org.uk/10au…
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