Minton and Company

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Business located at Eldon Place Stoke-on-Trent | View on map
1851 (Presumed)

Business located at Church Street Stoke-on-Trent | View on map
1851 (Presumed)

Institutional and Business Connections

Collaborated with Nottingham School of Art
1873 (Presumed) - 1874 (Presumed)
The 1873 Nottingham School of Art report states that 'two students [not named], originally trained at our school, have recently been appointed to important situations, as designers, - one as designer to Messrs Minton & Co., of the Potteries, Staffordshire, and another to a firm of decorators in Sheffield' [summary].

Collaborated with Midlands Museum of Art
1873
Probably loaned works to the Musuem's exhibition 1873 [see M. Cooper 'Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery' (2005), p. 9].

Associated People

Apprenticed George Thomas Scott
See Haggar (1947), unpaged; no dates are given.

Apprenticed John Slater
1875 (Circa)
See Haggar (1947), unpaged; no dates are given but Haggar suggests that Slater began working for Doultons in c. 1875.

Apprenticed Arnold Machin
1925 (Circa) - 1930 (Circa)
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged. Note that Wilkinson suggests that Machin was 'head modeller' at Minton from c. 1925-1929 [Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 98].

Designers included Walter Crane
1870 (Circa)
See Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 103.

Directors included Matthew Elden
1872 (Circa) - 1875 (Circa)
Suceeded W. S. Coleman as Director of Art Pottery: see Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 266.

Directors included Herbert Minton Robinson
1883 (Circa) - 1923 (Circa)
Director of Pottery: see Stuart 'People of the Potteries' (1985), p. 183.

Directors included Ludwig Louis Hartmann Adalbert Jahn
1893 - 1903
See Stuart 'People of the Potteries' (1985), p. 275. See also Haggar 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged, no dates are given by Haggar.

Directors included Gordon Mitchell Forsyth
1903 (Circa) - 1906 (Circa)
See Stuart 'People of the Potteries' (1985), p. 98.

Directors included W. S. Woodman
1914 (Circa)
Left the Royal College of Art in the 1913-1914 session and is listed as 'Art Director - Minton's Ltd. Stoke on Trent': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 84.

Employees included Fuller
Modelled figures produced in Parian by Minton. No dates are given: see Stuart 'People of the Potteries' (1985), p. 267.

Employees included Victor Gleaves
See Eyles 'The Doulton Burslem Wares' (1980), p. 163, no dates are given.

Employees included Francis H. Aloysius Jahn
Modelled a series of vases and ornamental ware for Minton; no dates are given. See Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 275.

Employees included Thomas Mellor
1880 (Circa)
Pâte-sur-pâte artist at Minton before moving to Wedgwood in the 1880s: see Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 237, no start date is given.

Employees included George Woolliscroft Rhead Junior
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged; listed as a ceramic artist but no dates are given.

Employees included Arthur Spode Birks
Worked and trained at Minton, no dates are given [see Wilkinson, 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 30].

Employees included Lucian Emile Boullemier
See Stuart 'People of the Potteries' (1985), p. 42, no dates are given.

Employees included John Salter
Apprenticed to Minton: See Stuart 'People of the Potteries' (1985), p. 193.

Employees included Pierre-Emile Jeannest
1845 (Circa) - 1855 (Circa)
Employed as a figure modeller, produced designs for majolica, terracotta, parian and porcelain. Wilkinson suggests a start date of 1845, Atterbury and Batkin suggest a start date of c. 1848 and end date of the early 1950s. See Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 85, Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 279 and Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged.

Employees included Hugues Protât
1845 (Circa) - 1858 (Circa)
See Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 120.

Employees included Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
1848 (Circa) - 1885 (Circa)
Atterbury and Batkin suggest that the artist moved to England in 1848 and began to work as a modeller at Minton. He continued to model for Minton, Wedgwood and Copeland after he returned to Paris in 1885: see 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 259.

Employees included Charles Toft
1850 (Circa) - 1868 (Circa)
£104
Modelled busts for Minton in the 1850s: see Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 311. Elliott, 'Potters' (2004) gives his salary in 1868 from the Minton's Salaries Book for that year

Employees included George Abbott
1850 (Circa) - 1860 (Circa)
Modelled figures for production in Parian; see Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 247.

Employees included William Beattie
1850 (Circa) - 1860 (Circa)
Designed models for Parian production: see Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 250.

Employees included John Hénk
1860 (Circa) - 1870 (Circa)
£151
See Haggar (1953), and Wilkinson (2007), p. 79. Wilkinson suggests that Henk was responsible for modelling at Minton in the 1870s [summary]. Haggar gives 1863 to 1914 as the dates of the artist's employment at Minton. Atterbury and Batkin state that the artist was apprenticed as a majolica figure modeller from c. 1860-1867: see 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990). Elliott, 'Potters' (2004) gives his salary in 1868 from Minton's Salaries Book

Employees included Thomas Longmore
1860 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
See Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 95.

Employees included Joseph Patrick Bacon
1860 (Circa)
Employed by Minton, possibly as a ceramic painter [see Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 16].

Employees included Antonin Hilaire Boullemier
1868 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
£400
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged and Elliott, 'Potters' (2004), p. 30, fn. 15 gives salary in 1868

Employees included Paul Comoléra
1868 (Circa) - 1880 (Circa)
£210
As a modeller, his salary in 1868 is given by Elliott, 'Potters' (2004)

Employees included Frederick Alfred Rhead
1869 (Circa) - 1876 (Circa)
Apprenticed at Minton in Novemeber 1869 as a painter. From Spril 1871-76 trained as a pâte-sur-pâte modeller at the firm's China Works. Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), pp. 294-295.

Employees included Louis Marc Emmanuel Solon
1870 (Circa) - 1904 (Circa)
See Stuart 'People of the Potteries' (1985), p. 196.

Employees included Henry Plant Hollins
1873 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
Apprenticed at Minton in c. 1873 and worked on pâte-sur-pâte decoration [summary see Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists (2007), p. 79].

Employees included Eric Owen
1922 (Circa) - 1947 (Circa)
First apprenticed to Minton Hollins Company, then moved to Minton's China Works in 1922. In 1928 became chief modeller for Minton. Left the firm in 1947 to become chief modeller at Wedgwood. See Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 289.

Employees included Reginald George Haggar
1929 - 1935 (Presumed)
Assistant designer at Minton; after six months became Art Director. On his departure from Minton he recalled:'I left in the middle of the week without notice. I knew that if I did not go myself they would have given me the sack.' [quoted in Elliott, 'Potters', 2004, p. 19]

Employer of (Joseph) Léon F. Arnoux
1848 - 1892
Art Director [see Elliott, 'Potters', 2004]

Employer of Paul Comoléra
1873 (Probable) - 1876 (Circa)
The artist is first listed as appearing on Minton salary lists in October 1873 and 'was entered on susequent lists up to 1876': see Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 261.

Employer of Léon Albert Vincent Solon
1900 (Circa) - 1909 (Circa)
Art Director [see Stuart 'People of the Potteries' (1985), p. 196. See also Haggar (1953), p. 49, who gives the dates 1900-1905 for the artists employment at Minton.]

Partners included Herbert Minton
1817 - 1858

Worked with John Bell
Modelled figures that were reproduced in Parian, no dates are given: see Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 251.

Descriptions of Business or Institution

Listed in History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Staffordshire, 1851 White's Trades Directories
1851
Listed under 'China and Earthenware Manufacturers; Porcelain, Statuary'.

Sources

Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, & Writters on Art 1. Born in Staffordshire, 2. Lived in Staffordshire, 3. Worked in Staffordshire, 4. Died in Staffordshire, or with close staffordshire associations, December 1947
Unpaged.

History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Staffordshire, 1851 White's Trades Directories
21 July 1851
p. 240.

Pottery Company Newscuttings, c.1949-present Stoke Local Archives Collection
See various articles dating from 1950 onwards listed in the index to the newscuttings collection under 'Minton Ltd.' [summary].

The Report of the Nottingham School of Art, For the Year ending July 31st, 1873 Nottingham School of Art
31 July 1873
p. 12.