Dinner plate, white earthenware, decorated with an elaborate printed, enamelled and iron-lustred pattern of lotus, lily flowers and brocaded ribbon with a ring motif in the centre; back, painted pattern number C185, impressed factory mark and year code,

Dinner plate, white earthenware, decorated with an elaborate printed, enamelled and iron-lustred pattern of lotus, lily flowers and brocaded ribbon with a ring motif in the centre; back, painted pattern number C185, impressed factory mark and year code, and printed factory mark and registered design mark with encoded date of 13th June 1861, made by Minton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1861+ (1866)
the Minton firm was styled Minton and Company from 1841-1873, hence the M&C monogram factory mark