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Body Style: Prairie Flowers

Biography

Powell and Bishop decorated the Prairie Flowers blanks of their predecessors, Livesley and Powell, with the fanciful copper lustre Pomegranate design. Pitchers have a vertical arrangement of wheat and poppy embossing which characterized this 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:
Powell & Bishop
Motifs:
Lustre Band
Pomegranate
Rose

Body Style: Diamond Simplicity

Biography

Diamond Simplicity is a variation of the Simplicity body style. It features an embossed diamond prominently displayed on teh handles and finials.

We know that Powell and Bishop decorated this shape with a Rose motif while Anthony Shaw used lustre bands. It is possible that other motifs will be found on this body style in the future.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1870s, 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Powell & Bishop
Shaw
Motifs:
Lustre Band
Rose

Potter: Powell, Bishop & Stonier

Biography

1878-1891
Also see Powell & Bishop

Location: Hanley, Staffordshire
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre
Body Styles:
Golden Scroll
Prairie Flowers
Simple Square - Puffy
Simplicity
Square Ridged - Iona
Washington Shape
Wheat in the Meadow
Motifs:
Lustre Band
Pomegranate
Rose
Tea Leaf

Potter: Powell & Bishop

Biography

1866-1878
Also see Powell, Bishop & Stonier
 

Location: Hanley, Staffordshire
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1860s, 1870s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre
Body Styles:
Chelsea
Diamond Simplicity
Plain Round
Prairie Flowers
Simple Square - Puffy
Simplicity
Square Ridged - Iona
Stitches
Unknown
Washington Shape
Wheat in the Meadow
Motifs:
Lustre Band
Moss Rose
Pomegranate
Rose
Tea Leaf
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