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Body Style: Reeded Round

Biography

The Reeded Round body style has to date only been found on bath sets. The style sports a scalloped-shaped basin and graceful ewer with scalloped rim. The C-shaped handle bears a knob to assist in handling the heavy ewer when filled with water. Both pieces are decorated with embossed reeding surrounding the base of each.

 

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1870s, 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Burgess
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Melon Rib

Biography

The bulbous waist of this body style is embossed with ribbing that resembles a melon.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: N/A
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Brunt
Motifs:
Moss Rose

Body Style: Quilted Forget-Me-Not

Biography

All over forget-me-not flowers inside diamond squares resembling a quilt.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: N/A
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Bridgwood
Motifs:
Cloverleaf

Body Style: Panache

Biography

Panache is a fitting name for a body style that is splashed with glittering copper lustre. The plates sport embossing with swirling copper lustred lines. The Beardmore & Dawson firm was only in business for four months. There were other Beardmore partnerships, but the B & D mark is very rare indeed.

Registered in 1863.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1860s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round

Body Style: Fruit Garden

Biography

This body stryle uses copper lustre to highlight the stems and fruits in this stunning design. Jean Wtherbee attributed this body style to J. F. Barrow and Company.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Barrow & Company
Motifs:
Other

Body Style: Plain Round

Biography

Plain Round is a term we use to describe a variety of wares by different potters. These wares are typically of a simple bulbous shape, unadorned and may have been produced for institutions such as hotels or restaurants and Inns. Durability was the drawing card, yet there is beauty in the simplicity of the lines. They were not necessarily manufactured to go with one body style but with many different ones. Plain Round can be found in children's and adult wares, as well as in bath and dinnerware items.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 20th Century
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round

Body Style: Vintage Shape

Biography

This body style is nick named "Grape and Medallion." It was produced extensively in white ironstone by E & C Challinor. The plate rim features an embossed outer chain from which grape leaves are suspended.

Naming Source: Factory Named
Manufacturing Era: 1860s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round
Potters:
Adams
Motifs:
Tea Leaf

Body Style: Hawthorn

Biography

Wilkinson's round body style is embellished with stylized hawthorn leaves at the handle and finial terminals. Because of the three-toed lustre treatment on the leaves, some collectors nicknamed this style "Claw."

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1880s, 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Oval, Round

Body Style: Diamond Simplicity

Biography

Diamond Simplicity is a variation of the Simplicity body style. It features an embossed diamond prominently displayed on the handles and finials.

We know that Powell and Bishop decorated this shape with a Rose motif while Anthony Shaw used lustre bands. It is possible that other motifs will be found on this body style in the future.

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1870s, 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Round