Lustre Band

The name for this oval body style is derived from the berry-like clusters on the finials of covered holloware pieces. Embossing on the body resembles tall stalks with leaves and berries at the upper end.

Elsmore & Forster's bulbous style with embossed laurel wreaths is lavishly decorated with brilliant copper lustre. The neck is marked with vertical ribs and thumbprints while only ribbing marks the lower body and shaped base. Copper lustre adorns the twisted rope finials and upturned handles of holloware pieces. The copper lustre dotted bands on the necks and lids of holloware pieces can also be found on the rims of plates, platters, relish/pickle dishes, cups and other flatware.

Embossed clusters of flowers and leaves hang from loops near the rims of hollowware pieces. This is a popular Elsmore & Forster body style and is found with many types of decoration including transfer designs and mulberry patterns.

Davenport named this shape Union Shape but ironstone collectors fondly called it Fig. Sometimes found with extensive copper lustre covering the handles, rims, foot and fig motif, it can be a very showy piece! About 1856.

This late Clementson Brothers bulbous square body style presents a very sturdy appearance. The angular lines and wide horizontal band at the terminals of the bracket handles are a precursor of the Arts and Crafts movement that supplanted Victorian fussiness.

Registered in 1885.

Elegance is a round style with fancy scroll-like embossing at handle terminals and at the finial. The distinctive double C-scroll finial is quite unusual and is the inspiration for the name "Elegance." Registered in 1884.

The lavishly embossed Lafayette Shape was a name that would appeal to the average housewife. Strangely, the plates and platters in this body style are plain in conrast to the hollowware pieces. 

Embossed scrolling highlights this body style. Note the alternating wide and narrow ribs that punctuate the necks of pitchers, sugar bowls, teapots, etc. These are repeated on the shaped base.

Registered in 1860.

An early Sydenham-type body style, there are examples which feature copper lustred leaves (not embossed) in pairs hanging from the lustre band. Registered in 1855.

This body style is rarely found in copper lustre decorated ironstone. However, Burgess did produce a relish/pickle with copper lustre band. In plain white ironstone, collectors will also find pieces of Granade Shape produced by T. & R. Boote.