Rectangular

Body Style: Square Ridged - Beaded Handle

Biography

Henry Burgess' late entry of a Square Ridged style featured ribbing below the low waist of a flared body which is almost hexagonal. The upturned bracket handles are decorated with beading on the underside. The graceful curve of the triangular arch finial softens the vertical lines of this style. Registered in 1896.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oblong, Rectangular
Potters:
Burgess
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Circle and Dot

Biography

This body style features twisted rope handles, a hexagonal spheroid shape with a recessed base, and the lids are plateau with horizontal flattened arch finials. 

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oblong, Rectangular
Potters:
Scott
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Fleur-de-lys

Biography

This body style features pleated corners on lids of holloware pieces such as covered vegetables which are repeated on the body and on the foot. Vertical handles on covered vegetables are an interesting twist to what is often seen. It is named Fleur-de-lys to acknowledge the embossing at the finial, reminiscent of French chilvaric emblems; this the French spelling of this royal symbol. Registered in 1891.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Rectangular
Potters:
Mellor, Taylor

Body Style: Beaded Bow

Biography

The Thomas Hughes and Son, England, mark tells us that this late body style was potted between 1895 and 1910.

 

The square lines of the sugar bowl reflect the Eastlake style of architecture popular at the end of the 19th century. 

 

The most distinctive feature of Beaded Bow is the bow finial and the beading on both the finial and on the bracket style handles.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1890s, 20th Century
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oblong, Rectangular
Potters:
Hughes
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Bellflower

Biography

An embossed floral design characterizes this unusual square body style. Stamped Royal arms mark reads: "Ironstone china, W & E Corn, Burslem" indicating a pre-1891 mark.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Rectangular
Potters:
Corn
Motifs:
Tea Leaf