Lustre Band

Hearts and flowers are deeply sculpted on this 1860's shape by John Edwards. Since this potter often decorated his wares with theTea Leaf motif, it's quite reasonable that one day an example of Tuscan Shape with a Tea Leaf will surface. About 1867.

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 is a beautiful pattern with thumbprint impressions surrounding the base of pieces and arched panels along the sides with embossed spriggs of wheat flaring upwards and out. Copper lustre or polychrome with copper lustre highlights the wheat shafts and other embossed elements on these pieces.

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.

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.

Clementson's New York Shape is characterized by a tapered bulbous body with embossed leaf designs sometimes referred to as phoenix. The distinctive base has a thumbprint design below the low waist.

Registered in 1858.

This body style is characterized by a diamond shape footprint on pieces such as covered vegetables and a distinctive finial shaped like a chambered spiral which resembles a Nautilus. The spiraled handles continue the nautical theme. Lustred tendrils at the finial and handle terminals resemble seaweed. The relish/pickle is also chambered and features the seaweed tendrils at the handles. 

This is a generic category which includes scalloped rim pieces, both flat and hollow, that have no specialized embossing. In addition, it includes the scalloped rim bone dishes, butter pats, and nappies.

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.

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.