Hexagon (6-Sided)

Body Style: Hexagon - Banded Handle

Biography

A club named body style featuring a hexagonal footprint and bracketed handles with some bands impressed on the handle sides.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: N/A
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Hexagon (6-Sided)
Potters:
Green & Clay
Motifs:
Moss Rose

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: Cockscomb Handle

Biography

The fancy cockscomb handle and high pedestal base make this an outstanding example of the body style sometimes called "Lantern." Usually found in mulberry or flow blue, they also made lines with Teaberry or copper lustre bands. It is attributed to Jacob Furnival.

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

Body Style: Empress Shape

Biography

Empress Shape features a squatty ribbed body style. It was produced by the Adams pottery during the mid-20th century Tea Leaf revival. Technically, it is not a reproduction since it does not resemble any 19th century body style. It was often marked with the word "Micratex."

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 20th Century
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Hexagon (6-Sided)
Potters:
Adams & Sons
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Hexagon

Biography

Holloware pieces are six-sided with distinctive sunburst finials. Shapes on some serving pieces have scalloped feet while the tea service items have plain bases.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Hexagon (6-Sided), Round
Potters:
Shaw
Motifs:
Tea Leaf