"1836Z"^^ . "British artist" . "1765Z"^^ . . "Thomas Minton (1765 \u2013 1836) was an English potter. He founded Thomas Minton & Sons in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, which grew into a major ceramic manufacturing company with an international reputation.During the early 1780s Thomas Minton was an apprentice engraver at the Caughley Pottery Works in Shropshire, under the proprietorship of Thomas Turner, working on copperplate engravings for the production of transferwares."@en . . . "Minton, Thomas"@en .