Lustre Band

Body Style: Jumbo

Biography

Jumbo is a rare and unusual body style. The teapot is pear-shaped and very plain except for the addition of chrysanthemum flowers on each side of the handle terminals. The striking feature, is, of course, the well defined elephant head and trunk on the handles. This is repeated on the finial with two elephant heads facing away from each other. Jumbo was Henry Alcck's charming contribution to the animal feature whimsey of the 1880's.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Alcock
Motifs:
Lustre Band
Tea Leaf

Potter: George Scott

Biography

George and Rachel Scott emigrated to Cincinnati from Staffordshire England where both of their families had a long association with ironstone potteries.  Their factory was a converted tavern and sat on the land now occupied by the Cincinnati ball park.  The pottery was very successful making much undecorated white ware and some decorated with the Tea Leaf motif.  George Scott was a very successful potter and his products were widely distributed.  After his death, his daughter, Sarah, inherited the business and ran it with her husband who was also a potter by trade.

Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Origins: American
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Gold Lustre
Body Styles:
Cable Shape
Circle and Dot
Unknown
Motifs:
Lustre Band
Tea Leaf

Potter: Pinder, Bourne & Hope

Biography

In 1851 Thomas Shadford Pinder, Joseph Harvey Bourne and John Hope joined in partnership.  Pinder had previously operated from Swan Bank Works and Fountain Place Works.

The firm moved to the existing Niles Stree Works in 1850.  In 1862 Mr. Hope left the company and that company name changed to Pinder, Bourne & Co.  The "& Co." refered to John Harris and Ernest Johan Berg.  Mr. Bourne left the firm sometime before 1877.

Location: Fountain Place, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent (1851-1860) and Nile Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent (1860 - Jan. 1862)
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1850s, 1860s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Body Styles:
Full Panelled Gothic
Motifs:
Lustre Band

Potter: Joseph Clementson

Biography

1839-1864
See also: Clementson Bros.
Many of the body styles potted by J. Clementson were continued by Clementson Bros.

Location: Shelton, Hanley, Staffordshire
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s, 1860s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Copper Lustre with blue pinstripes and cobalt plumes, Copper Lustre with cobalt plumes, Copper Lustre with copper plumes, Gold Lustre, Polychrome with Copper Lustre
Body Styles:
Augusta Shape
Chinese Shape
Classic Gothic
Dallas Shape
Full Panelled Gothic
Grape Octagon
Hill Shape (Medallion Scroll)
Lafayette Shape
Lotus Bud
Nautilus
New York Shape
Panelled Grape
Plain Round
Prairie Shape
Ring Handled Round
Round Scallop
Motifs:
Botanical
Coral
Lustre Band
Seaweed
Teaberry
Other

Potter: Red Cliff Ironstone (Hall China)

Biography

Red Cliff Ironstone (Hall China) began production in 1903 and continues to this day.  Tea was produced by this firm between 1957 and 1977.  The Tea Leaf produced by this potter is actually a reproduction.  Fred Clifford of Red Cliff Co. purchased old pieces of English Tea Leaf and had it reproduced by Hall China Co. of East Liverpool Ohio.  Hall is a very old company and continues making ironstone and china to this day.  Red Cliff stopped producing Tea Leaf because they could not produce a lustre that wouldn't come off in the dish washer.

Location: East Liverpool, Ohio
Origins: American
Manufacturing Era: 20th Century Modern
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware, Novelty
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre
Body Styles:
Bullet
Chinese Shape
Classic Gothic
Panelled Grape
Simple Square
Square Ridged - Ribbed
Unknown
Motifs:
Lustre Band
Tea Leaf

Potter: J & E Mayer

Biography

The brothers, Joseph and Ernest Mayer who founded the J. & E. Mayer pottery (1881-present), were British potters from a long line of Staffordshire potters.  They knew Tea Leaf and produced it in large quantities with copper lustre covering the brown underglaze motif, a rarity in American Tea Leaf.  Their Tea Leaf was called 'Luster Band and Sprig' as they had known it in England.

Location: Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Origins: American
Manufacturing Era: 1880s, 1890s, 20th Century
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre, Polychrome with Copper Lustre
Body Styles:
American Coronet
Cable Shape
King Charles II
Plain Round
Simple Square - Pagoda
Simple Square
Unknown
Motifs:
Chelsea Grape
Lustre Band
Moss Rose
Tea Leaf

Potter: Edward Walley

Biography

Edward Walley - 1845-1858
Also: Edward Walley & Son - 1858-1862

Location: Cobridge, Staffordshire
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s, 1860s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Green, Polychrome with Copper Lustre, Sunderland (Pink) Lustrerland Lustre
Body Styles:
Classic Gothic
DeSoto Shape
Full Panelled Gothic
Gothic Cameo
Grape Octagon
Niagara Shape
Wrapped Sydenham
Motifs:
Chelsea Grape
Lustre Band
Palissy
Pomegranate
Pre-Tea Leaf
Scallops
Scroll
Spokes
Star & Garter
Tea Leaf
Teaberry
Other

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

Potter: Mellor, Taylor

Biography

1880-1904
Also: Mellor, Taylor & Co.

Location: Burslem, Staffordshire
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1880s, 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre
Body Styles:
Fleur-de-lys
Lion's Head
Plain Round
Ribboned Round
Scalloped Rim
Senate Shape
Simple Square
Square Ridged - Hearts
Motifs:
Lustre Band
Moss Rose
Tea Leaf
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