1840s

Type of Mark:
Stamped/Printed
Type of Mark:
Stamped/Printed

Body Style: Rococo

Biography

A very ornate body style, usually of porcelain, Rococo is found in many guises with variations in embossing and shaping. Some examples of the body style can be found with fancy, footed bases while others have flat shaped bases below subtly embossed bodies.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s
Type of Company: N/A
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round
Potters:
N/A

Body Style: Seashell

Biography

Seashell is a club named body style produced by Enoch Wood. This body style features a low foot with a bulbous base featuring ridges reminiscent of a seashell. The spout on pitchers is quite flared and rises about the same height as the handles. The handles are like a small "C" and a large "C" facing away from each other with the smaller one on the bottom. It's a very elegant body style.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1840s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Wood

Body Style: Primary

Biography

Primary is a generic name for several different body styles of the mid-19th century. There are many variations of this basic shape.

Some have uninterrupted vertical panels as in the Jacob Furnival child's pieces. Others may have a single straight line at the waist, or several lines belting the waist; diamond-styled vertical panels; or split vertical panels.

 

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Decagon (10-Sided), Hexagon (6-Sided), Octagon (8-Sided)
Potters:
Furnival
Walley

Body Style: Arched Wheat

Biography

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.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Polychrome with Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Cochran
Motifs:
Lustre Band

Body Style: Nautilus

Biography

This body style is characterized by a diamond shape footprint on pieces such as covered vegetables and a distinctive finial shaped like a chambered spiral which resembles a Nautilus. The spiraled handles continue the nautical theme. Lustred tendrils at the finial and handle terminals resemble seaweed. The relish/pickle is also chambered and features the seaweed tendrils at the handles. 

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Diamond Shaped
Potters:
Clementson
Motifs:
Lustre Band

Potter: Enoch Wood

Biography

1818-1845

Location: Burslem, Staffordshire
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1840s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Body Styles:
Ribbed Daisy
Unknown
Motifs:
Lustre Band

Body Style: Full Panelled Gothic

Biography

The vertical panels of this Gothic body style flow gently outward to the wide base. The collar is widely flared above the neck. Pitchers and teapots have bracket handles while covered pieces are found with ear-style lug handles. This Gothic style does not have a deeply indented arc near the base that characterizes the Classic Gothic.

 

 

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Octagon (8-Sided)

Body Style: Classic Gothic

Biography

One of the earliest body styles to be decorated with copper lustre motifs, Classic Gothic is characterized by its octagonal shape. Pitchers and teapots have bracket handles, while sugar and vegetable dishes have spiraled ear handles.

Classic Gothic can be distinguidhed from its cousin, Full Panelled Gothic, by the eight panels which extend downward to a deep indentation just above the base.

 

 

 

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Octagon (8-Sided)