Antique Mintons Set of 4 Soup Cups Saucers Bone China Puce Pink Scenes Gold 1929

  

These are 4 lovely antique bone china sets of double handled soup cups and saucers, made by Mintons in England. They have a lovely design in puce, which was a color used more in the 1800's, but here it is!

They have English countryside scenes in the bottom of the cups, and the centers of the saucers. Going around are swags of roses, and on the edge is a darker pink/puce scroll design and there is gold trim. The rose swags were definitely applied by transfer.

Please note that there are 2 COUNTRYSIDE SCENES, the 4 cups have 2 each, and the saucers have 3 of one scene, and 1 of the other. Look at pictures 18 and 19 where I put them in one grid for a closer look. The backstamp with the Minton globe under a crown with laurel on the sides, was used between 1912 and 1950 according to thepotteries.

Minton also imprinted date cyphers into some pieces off the china that give the exact year of manufacture. With a flashlight, I could see what is on the bottom of the saucers, 3 of them have a mark which was used in 1929. One of the saucers has a different mark, like a flower and the closest thing I could see for that was the cypher for 1915.

See the last 3 pictures which includes the Mintons cypher date chart so you can have a look too. The sets are in excellent antique condition with no chips, cracks, or crazing. Because the design is underglaze there is no wear to it, but there is a bit of rub wear to the gold on the edges. There are very very faint utensil marks in the glaze looking at an angle to the light on the saucers. There is a small rough spot on one of the cups and one of the saucers on the underside rim where the cup or saucer rests when put down.

There is a bit of discoloration on the underside of two of the cups that can be seen in the pictures. The soup cups are 2 & 1/8 inches tall, and about 3 & 3/8 inches in diameter (excluding handles) and hold 3/4 cup. The saucers are 5 & 5/8 inches in diameter.

One set weighs 8 ounces. Please zoom in on the pictures and see the 360 degree video for a closer look.

Any questions, please ask, and thanks for looking!