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Cecil Mary ROSSER, dau of William Rosser,
 married Samuel MINTON, grandson of Thomas Minton, 1765.

Minton, English family of potters.

The first important member of the family was Thomas Minton,. 1765-1836, who founded a small pottery at Stoke-on-Trent.                                                                                                    
He first engraved the famous willow-pattern ware.

Herbert Minton,. 1793-1858, succeeded his father as head of the firm of Minton china & pottery , and to him was due its development and reputation. He enlisted the services of artists and skilled artisans. A memorial museum and library building was erected to him at Stoke-on-Trent.
refs. http://www.replacements.com/mfghist/minton.htm
http://www.thepotteries.org/listed/63a_h.html (photos)

Herbert Minton and Colin Minton Campbell are mentioned several times in the will of WILLIAM HENRY ROSSER.
Both of these men carried on the family business through the Victorian days and up to WW1.


Thomas Minton founded his factory in 1793/6 in Stoke-upon-Trent.

Minton was Spode's nearest rival. He was famous for Minton ware - a cream-coloured and blue-printed earthenware maiolica, bone china, and Parian porcelain; his factory was outstanding in the Victorian period for its "art" porcelains. He also popularized the famous so-called Willow pattern.

The love birds are from the "Willow Pattern" plate. In the 1820s he started production of bone china; this early Minton is regarded as comparable to French Sèvres, by which it was greatly influenced.

Minton's was the only English china factory of the 19th century to employ a Sèvres process called pâte-sur-pâte (ie: painted decoration in white clay slip instead of enamel before glazing).

Minton also produced Parian figures. The Minton factory was the most popular supply source in the 19th century of dinnerware made to order for embassies and for heads of state and the factory is still producing to the present day.
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