Figure 2 Jug, Minton and Company,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1840–1860. Stoneware. H. 6 1/4".
(Private collection; photo, Gavin Ashworth.) The “Felix Summerley”
tea-set designed by Cole (discussed above) was produced by Minton and Company.
Herbert Minton made a wide array of table and tea wares in earthen, stone,
and Parian wares, and he developed many lower-priced colored bodies, including
the colors turquoise, blue, and “blue suck.” The jug depicted
here is similar to those awarded prizes by the Royal Society of Arts in
the late 1840s (Joan Jones, Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design
and Production [Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1993]).
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