Round

This body style features bracket handles, pagoda finials and beading on the handles - hence the name!

The classic lines of this tapered round ware inspired the name "Rondeau." The name is particularly suitable, as in classic poetry and music, a Rondeau features a repeated line. Davenport's Rondeau carries this theme out with the wide and narrow copper lustre bands rimming flatware pieces and the rim and collar bands on hollowware pieces.

Identified by the intricate embossed rope on the handle.

Beribboned and bowed, this body style has beaded handles on tea set pieces and embossed stems and leaves flowing from the handle terminals. The same embossing is repeated on the lid. The gold lustre outlining the designs is completed with cloverleaf motifs.

Registered in 1878.

Edward Walley decorated this widely popular design with a variety of lustre motifs. In addition to the Tea Leaf and related motifs, Walley also used Chelsea Grape and other various painted patterns.

The flared round tea service pieces flow to an extremely low waist and then are sharply indented to a shaped base. The shape of dinner serving pieces can be seen in the Register of Designs, British Patent Office, dated November 29, 1856.

This is a beautiful pattern with thumbprint impressions surrounding the base of pieces and arched panels along the sides with embossed spriggs of wheat flaring upwards and out. Copper lustre or polychrome with copper lustre highlights the wheat shafts and other embossed elements on these pieces.

Round Scallop features deep scallops surrounding the well of the plate, but the outer rim is round and not sided. There may be other potters who produced this as well.

This bulbous body style features embossed grape leaves spreading from the finials and the handle terminals. It is found with at least two types of finials, the ring finial and also a grape cluster version. Since it is found with such a variety of treatments, including the unusual Botanical motifs, it was evidently one of the most popular of the early body styles.

The phoenix bird mark on a known sugar bowl reads J. Clementson while a pitcher is marked Clementson Brothers. Arnold Kowalsky points out that "Many prior Joseph Clementson shapes were reissued by his sons."

The ring-handled shape is consistent with styles of the 1850s, but the mark on a known pitcher indicates a later production date.