'THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN' FOUR FROM A SERIES OF SEVEN MINTON ...

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'THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN' FOUR FROM A SERIES OF SEVEN MINTON ART POTTERY STUDIO RECTANGULAR PLAQUES DESIGNED BY HENRY STACY MARKS, c.1874, various impressed, incised and stamped marks, decorator's marks to each verso, each inscribed H.S. marks, 25 x 50.7cm (plaque). Contained in wooden frames Based on scenes from William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', and depicting figures in Medieval dress. The first with a young child being held by his grandmother while his mother and father look on under a blossoming tree; the second depicting the child in a summer garden overlooked by his parents; the fourth depicting the adolescent composing music before a building; the seventh depicting the old man wooing a much younger woman