Lustre Band

Body Style: Stitches

Biography

This body style was named for it's embossed half-cross "stitches" separated by dots.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: N/A
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Square
Potters:
Powell & Bishop
Motifs:
Lustre Band

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

Body Style: Washington Shape

Biography

An embossed spray of flowers and foilage emanating from the handle terminals graces the body of the bulbous, rounded serving pieces.  Smaller sprays are found on the rims of plates and platters. 

Naming Source: Factory Named
Manufacturing Era: 1860s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Green
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round

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

Body Style: Chantilly

Biography

This body style is identified by lacy embossing and lustre decoration.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1870s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Meakin
Motifs:
Lustre Band

Body Style: True Scallop

Biography

True Scallop is characterized by the sided rim and the deep scalloped well of the plate. About 1853.

Naming Source: N/A
Manufacturing Era: 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Meakin
Motifs:
Lustre Band

Body Style: Prize Bloom

Biography

Prize Bloom is a well named body style. It features blooms not only on the finial but on the spout and the looping handle.

With a profusion of copper lustre adorning the blooms, it is a delightful example of this potter's art.

 Registered about 1853. Only tea sets are currently known in this body style.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Mayer
Motifs:
Lustre Band

Body Style: Wrapped Sydenham

Biography

The syndenham body style was introduced by T & R Boote in 1853. It achieved instant popularity and thus was copied widely. The three potters (Livesley and Powell, Anthony Shaw and Edward Walley) decorated their Wrapped Sydenham versions with a variety of treatments. Collectors will find traditional Tea Leaf (Shaw) , Scallops (Walley) and Lustre Band (Livesley & Powell) motifs. FInials may also vary - Shaw may have a bud finial ahile Walley feature an acorn finial. Patton also made wares in this body style.

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

Body Style: Fig and Leaf

Biography

The finial on this body style is a fig lying atop a bed of leaves. Pieces are decorated with thick copper banding.

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

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