Oval

This is believed to be the body style name that Ford China company, of Ford City, Pennsylvania, marked its tea leaf wares with.  The body style is a fancy shape with a low waist, ear shaped handles that connect at the top of the neck and at the middle of the waist.  It includes an impressed medley of flowers and leaves.  The spout on pitchers is slightly elongated and the rim is heavily scalloped.

Characterized by delicate scroll-like embossing below the top rim, this shape is found with a variety of treatments. Tea service items are found in both round and oval shapes. Many pieces are found with an impressed "No. 2."

NOTE: The impressed name does not include the word "shape." However, the mark clearly shows this as a potter-named body style. Registered in 1862.

This panelled round style boasts distinctive trumpet flower finials. Portland Shape was potted over a period of thirty years. It is found decorated with marvelous copper lustre Morning Glory motifs or equally beautiful green and copper Reverse Teaberry designs. Some tea services have been found with Pomegranate finials. 

Note that children's sets were not made in Portland Shape but were made in Columbia Shape.

The color of pale Baltic amber, Edge Malkin's elegant Tea Leaf ironstone would be at home at a palatial feast. There are two styles of tea services: one has a high domed lid and the other a flat lid. The finials of the sauce tureen and the rare lidded pancake server are truly regal.

The classic lines of this tapered round ware inspired the name "Rondeau." The name is particularly suitable, as in classic poetry and music, a Rondeau features a repeated line. Davenport's Rondeau carries this theme out with the wide and narrow copper lustre bands rimming flatware pieces and the rim and collar bands on hollowware pieces.

This late Corn body style sports faintly fluted corners on a body that is slighly bulbous. The embossing at the handle terminals resembles the flora of a forest floor. The twisted rope handle completes the rustic design.

Edward Walley decorated this widely popular design with a variety of lustre motifs. In addition to the Tea Leaf and related motifs, Walley also used Chelsea Grape and other various painted patterns.

The flared round tea service pieces flow to an extremely low waist and then are sharply indented to a shaped base. The shape of dinner serving pieces can be seen in the Register of Designs, British Patent Office, dated November 29, 1856.

This bulbous body style features embossed grape leaves spreading from the finials and the handle terminals. It is found with at least two types of finials, the ring finial and also a grape cluster version. Since it is found with such a variety of treatments, including the unusual Botanical motifs, it was evidently one of the most popular of the early body styles.

This late 19th century design was used by many potters of that era. Notable are the Tea Leaf designs by Anthony Shaw and the Teaberry motif examples by Clementson Brothers. Both examples have knob finials The Plain Uplift body style has simple lines and the uplifted handles attached to the body. Sometimes the handles are adorned with a decoration similar to beaded band.

Priaire Shape is embossed with wheat sheaves and poppies. This body style rivaled Elsmore & Forster's Ceres Shape in popularity. Produced for the American export market, the name and the design had instant appeal.

Registered in 1862.