Each finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a maiden either playing the tambourine or the triangle within a hexagonal surround, the sides with ribbons suspending cymbals and scrollwork, the lower body with arrows
16¹⁄₂ in. (41.9 cm.) high

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Lawrence Birks is recorded at the factory from 1872 to 1895. He is first mentioned in Solon's notebooks in March of 1872 and is thought to complete the trio of assistants as stipulated in Solon's contract of 1871. Birks later went on to establish his own pottery near Minton in the Stoke area.

See Joan Jones, Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 197 for an example of this form decorated by Solon and identified as shape no. 1986.