Antique MINTON William Wise Farm Animal Tile (cows in the barn)

Minton's ltd, was a major ceramics manufacturing company, originated with thomas minton, the founder of "thomas minton and sons", who established his pottery factory in stoke-upon-trent, staffordshire, england, in 1793, producing earthenware and from 1798 bone china. Minton entered into partnership with Michael Hollins in 1845 and formed the tile making firm of Minton Hollins & Co., which was at the forefront of a large newly developing market as suppliers of durable decorative finishes for walls and floors in churches, public buildings, grand palaces and simple domestic houses.