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Body Style: Grape Octagon

Biography

One of the most popular of the early body styles, Grape Octagon has fluted octagonal panels and grape embossing at handle terminals and finials. Pitchers and teapots have distinctive B-shaped handles.  

Naming Source: Club Named
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Footprints/Shapes: Octagon (8-Sided), Round
Potters:
Broughham and Mayer
Clementson
Elsmore and Forster
Farrall
Freakley & Farrall
Furnival
Hughes
Livesley and Powell
Walley
Motifs:
Lustre Band
Pinwheel
Pomegranate
Pre-Tea Leaf
Teaberry
Thistle & Berry

Potter: J & G Meakin

Biography

1851-1870.  J & G Meakin was in business from 1851 through the 20th century (later became part of the Wedgwood group).

Location: Hanley, Staffordshire
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1850s, 1860s, 1870s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Body Styles:
Bow Tie
Cable Shape
Chelsea
Panelled Berry With Leaves
Unknown
Motifs:
Pinwheel
Tea Leaf

Potter: Jacob Furnival

Biography

1845-1870
Also Jacob Furnival & Co.

Location: Colbridge, Staffordshire
Origins: British
Manufacturing Era: 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s
Type of Company: Potter
Type of Ware: Bath, Dinnerware
Treatments: Copper Lustre
Body Styles:
Berry Cluster
Classic Gothic
Cockscomb Handle
Full Panelled Gothic
Gothic Grape
Grand Loop
Grape Octagon
Hidden Motif
Loop & Line
Panelled Grape
Primary
Quartered Rose
Scalloped Rim
Unknown
Walled Octagon
Wheat
Motifs:
Blackberry
Botanical
Chelsea Grape
Cinquefoil
Coral
Ivy
Lustre Band
Pinwheel
Teaberry
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