Body Style

Primary

Naming Source:

Club Named

Potter

Jacob Furnival
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Colbridge, Staffordshire

Edward Walley
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Cobridge, Staffordshire

Manufacturing Era(s):

1840s, 1850s

Treatment:

Copper Lustre

Footprints/Shapes:

Decagon (10-Sided), Hexagon (6-Sided), Octagon (8-Sided)

Type(s) of Ware:

Dinnerware

Motif(s):

Lustre Band
Pinwheel

Description:

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.

 

What they all have in common is a bulbous shape, a pedestal base and a flared rim. Both the rim and the base reflect the number of panels: six, eight or ten. For further information on this body style, refer to the book Mulbery Ironstone by Ellen R. Hill.