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Minton pottery and porcelain
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Wares made at the *Stoke-on-Trent factory founded in 1793 by Thomas Minton (1765–1836), the probable designer of the conventional *willow pattern. The firm is still in business and over two centuries has produced a massive output in a very wide range of styles (visible today in a chronological display in the factory's museum). French *Sèvres was among the most important influences, and Minton was the only English factory to use the Sèvres technique of pâte-sur-pâte, in which a design in white relief is built up by painting on layers of slip, or liquid clay. This was introduced at Sèvres in the early 1850s and was brought to England in 1871 by Marc-Louis Solon, who fled from the *Franco-Prussian war and found work at Minton's.
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