Moss Rose | Tea Leaf Identification Guide and Handbook

Potter: Powell & Bishop

Biography

1866-1878
Also see Powell, Bishop & Stonier

Location: Hanley, Staffordshire
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1860s, 1870s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre

Body Styles:
Chelsea
Diamond Simplicity
Plain Round
Prairie Flowers
Simple Square - Puffy
Simplicity
Square Ridged - Iona
Stitches
Unknown
Washington Shape
Wheat in the Meadow

Motifs:
Lustre Band
Moss Rose
Pomegranate
Rose
Tea Leaf

Potter: Mellor, Taylor

Biography

1880-1904
Also: Mellor, Taylor & Co.

Location: Burslem, Staffordshire
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1880s, 1890s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre

Body Styles:
Fleur-de-lys
Lion's Head
Plain Round
Ribboned Round
Scalloped Rim
Senate Shape
Simple Square
Square Ridged - Hearts

Motifs:
Lustre Band
Moss Rose
Tea Leaf

Potter: T&R Boote

Biography

from 1872-1876

Location: Burslem, Staffordshire
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1870s, 1880s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre

Body Styles:
Classic Shape
Shield

Motifs:
Lustre Band
Moss Rose
Tea Leaf

Potter: Knowles, Taylor, Knowles

Biography

Founders Isaac Knowles, his son Homer S. Knowles, son-in-law John N. Taylor, began a pottery that became the largest pottery in the United States, selling to every state in the union. Isaac was the originator of many improvements in the pottery industry. K.T.K. was the first pottery in the U.S. to use natural gas to fire the kilns. By 1887, K.T.K. operated 16 kilns, 12 decorating kilns, and employed six hundred workers. The company produced a finished cask of product every ten minutes of working time.

Location: East Liverpool, Ohio
Origins: American
Manufacturing Era: 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 20th Century
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware, Novelty
Treatments: Gold Lustre, Sunderland (Pink) Lustrerland Lustre

Body Styles:
Basketweave
Cable Shape
Ionic
Iowa
Plain Round
Unknown

Motifs:
Moss Rose
Tea Leaf

Potter: Alfred Meakin

Biography

Began in 1875 at Royal Albert, Victoria and Highgate Potteries. One of the Staffordshire potteries. After 1897, added "LTD" to the name. After 1930, "LTD" was not used in the marks. The mark often incorporates a lion, unicorn, and a coat of arms, athough other marks were also used.

Location: Tunstall, England
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 20th Century
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre, Gold Lustre

Body Styles:
Bamboo
Beaded Tracery
Brocade
Chain Link
Chantilly
Chelsea
Crewel
Fishhook
Nautilus Shell
Nouveau
Plain Round
Pleats and Vines
Scalloped Rim
Scroll
Senate Shape
Simple Pear
Simple Square
Sunflower
Twelve Panel
Unknown

Motifs:
Lustre Band
Moss Rose
Tea Leaf