Body Style

Chinese Shape

Naming Source:

Factory Named

Potter

Joseph Clementson
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Shelton, Hanley, Staffordshire

Red Cliff Ironstone (Hall China)
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East Liverpool, Ohio

Anthony Shaw
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Tunstall and Burslem, England

Manufacturing Era(s):

1850s, 20th Century

Treatment:

Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre

Footprints/Shapes:

Octagon (8-Sided), Oval

Type(s) of Ware:

Bath, Dinnerware

Motif(s):

Chelsea Grape
Cloverleaf
Lustre Band
Tea Leaf
Teaberry

Description:

An elegantly paneled style with leaf embossing at the handle terminals and surrounding the rosebud finial. Chinese Shape is found decorated with Tea Leaf or Teaberry motifs; even with gold lustre motifs on lighter weight bodies. Some examples by Anthony Shaw actually are in lustre band only and may be either panelled or smooth.  Red Cliff copied the lines and the distinctive Shaw tea leaf in their mid-20th century reproduction line.

Registered in 1856.

 

 

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