Decagon (10-Sided) | Tea Leaf Identification Guide and Handbook

Elsmore & Forster (Attrib.) - Unknown - LB - Sauce Dishes - Lustre Band with Cobalt Plumes

Item: Nappy/Sauce Dish
Potter: Elsmore and Forster
Location: Tunstall, Staffordshire
Manufacturing Era(s):
Origins: British
Type of Company: Potter
Collecting Category: Common
Type of Ware:
Body Style: Unknown
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Finials: N/A
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Mark: N/A

Unknown - Unknown - PIN - Plate

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Item: Plate
Potter: Unknown
Location: N/A
Manufacturing Era(s): N/A
Origins: N/A
Type of Company: Potter
Collecting Category: Common
Type of Ware:
Body Style: Unknown
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Anthony Shaw - Chinese Shape - TL - Mug - Large Size

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Item: Mug (Shaving - Various Sizes)
Potter: Anthony Shaw
Location: Tunstall and Burslem, England
Manufacturing Era(s):
Origins: British
Type of Company: Potter
Collecting Category: Mid-Level
Type of Ware:
Body Style: Chinese Shape
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Elsmore and Forster - Panelled Decagon - LB - Butter

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Item: Butter Dish
Potter: Elsmore and Forster
Location: Tunstall, Staffordshire
Manufacturing Era(s):
Origins: British
Type of Company: Potter
Collecting Category: Mid-Level
Type of Ware:
Body Style: Panelled Decagon
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Elsmore and Forster - Gothic Shape - MG - Mug Shaving

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Item: Mug (Shaving - Various Sizes)
Potter: Elsmore and Forster
Location: Tunstall, Staffordshire
Manufacturing Era(s):
Origins: British
Type of Company: Potter
Collecting Category: High-end
Type of Ware:
Body Style: Gothic Shape
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Walley - Grape Octagon - STAR - Plates

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Item: Plate
Potter: Edward Walley
Location: Cobridge, Staffordshire
Manufacturing Era(s):
Origins: British
Type of Company: Potter
Collecting Category: Common
Type of Ware:
Body Style: Grape Octagon
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Walley - Grape Octagon - LB - Plate

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Unknown - Grape Octagon - THIST - Plate

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Item: Plate
Potter: Unknown
Location: N/A
Manufacturing Era(s):
Origins: N/A
Type of Company: Potter
Collecting Category: High-end
Type of Ware:
Body Style: Grape Octagon
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Finials: N/A
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Mark: N/A

Unknown - Classic Gothic - SCAL - Plate

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Item: Plate
Potter: Unknown
Location: N/A
Manufacturing Era(s):
Origins: N/A
Type of Company: Potter
Collecting Category: Common
Type of Ware:
Body Style: Classic Gothic
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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

Motifs:
Lustre Band
Pinwheel