Round

Body Style: Ribbed Round

Biography

A slight variation on some of our plain round and scallopped rim body styles, this design bears a perfectly smooth rim and a segmented or ribbed side.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: N/A
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Shaw
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Reticulated Lace

Biography

The only piece known to this body style is the reticulated compote. It's a beautiful body style with heavy embosing and reticulated cut outs highlighed with copper lustre and reminiscent of a lace doily. Hence, this is how the body style was named.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: N/A
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Shaw
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Plain Lily

Biography

This body style is identified by the embossed and decorated lily affixed to the top handle terminal. Otherwise, the body is plain without embossing.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: N/A
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Shaw
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Vintage Beauty

Biography

Found only in syrup pitchers, it is rare indeed with its graceful melloned bulbous body and its pewter lid. Anthony Shaw decorated with copper lustre Tea Leaf.

Jacob Furnival is also known to have produced this body style but examples of his with copper lustre decoration have not yet been found. 

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1860s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Shaw
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Sonata

Biography

A charming variation of the Plain Round styles of the 1870's, Anthony Shaw used lavish copper lustre decoration at the handles and finial surrounds. The uplifted handles are molded with a tied bow seen both on sugar bowls and on pickle/relish dishes. The medallion arch typ[e finial seems out of keeping with this style of handles. Creamers have a slightly scalloped rim and high spout, very similar to Shaw's Cable and Ring body style.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1870s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round
Potters:
Shaw
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Shaw's Plumes

Biography

Another unusual plate from Anthony Shaw features a slightly scalloped rim with embossed plumes. According to the mark, this dates to after 1882.

A saucer and a plate are the only known pieces so perhaps there is an entire dinnerware set.

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

Body Style: Pear

Biography

Pear is recognized by its squatty bulbous body and the pairs of long narrow leaves at the handle terminals. The finial is a perky pear atop the domed lid. Note that there are two styles of bases - one has a shaped base while others are pedestaled.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1860s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round
Potters:
Shaw

Body Style: Niagara Fan

Biography

Niagara Fan is thought to be one of the first body styles decorated with the traditional Tea Leaf motif. The fan designs at the junction of each ridged section resemble Walley's Niagara Shape, thus the name, Niagara Fan.

Note that on Niagara Fan there are four flutes in the design, whereas Niagara Shape has five.  Also, the Shaw decoration extends al the way to the neck on teapots, etc.  The Walley design terminates at a decorative band that surrounds the neck.

Registered in 1856.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round
Potters:
Shaw

Body Style: Simplicity

Biography

Simplicity is a bulbous round style with uplifted handles. There is no embelishment other than the prominent Tea Leaf motif featured on the Shaw examples or the distinctive Rose motif of Powell and Bishop wares.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round
Motifs:
Rose
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Wheat in the Meadow

Biography

Another of the very popular wheat styles, this one is by Powell and Bishop and features double sprays of wheat sheaves with flowers on a bulbous round shape. Registered in 1869.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1860s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round
Potters:
Powell & Bishop
Motifs:
Lustre Band
Rose