Tea Leaf

The only piece known to this body style is the reticulated compote. It's a beautiful body style with heavy embosing and reticulated cut outs highlighed with copper lustre and reminiscent of a lace doily. Hence, this is how the body style was named.

This body style is used to describe the identical ladles that Anthny Shaw used with different body styles, including: Bullet and Daisy.

This body style is identified by the embossed and decorated lily affixed to the top handle terminal. Otherwise, the body is plain without embossing.

Found only in syrup pitchers, it is rare indeed with its graceful melloned bulbous body and its pewter lid. Anthony Shaw decorated with copper lustre Tea Leaf.

Jacob Furnival is also known to have produced this body style but examples of his with copper lustre decoration have not yet been found. 

A charming variation of the Plain Round styles of the 1870's, Anthony Shaw used lavish copper lustre decoration at the handles and finial surrounds. The uplifted handles are molded with a tied bow seen both on sugar bowls and on pickle/relish dishes. The medallion arch typ[e finial seems out of keeping with this style of handles. Creamers have a slightly scalloped rim and high spout, very similar to Shaw's Cable and Ring body style.

A late Shaw body style on a semi-porcelain blank, which is creamy in color. It is characterized by the outline of a shield created by the vertical ridges. The backstamp is in brown ink. Registered in 1889.

Another unusual plate from Anthony Shaw features a slightly scalloped rim with embossed plumes. According to the mark, this dates to after 1882.

A saucer and a plate are the only known pieces so perhaps there is an entire dinnerware set.

This body style is named for the plumage embossed below the pouring spout of the pitchers. The basic lines are typically Gothic with the base similar to the Classic Gothic shape of Edward Walley.

The basic difference, other than the throat embossing, is the lack of a line defining the neck of the vessel. Both Classic Gothic and Full-Panelled Gothic have a double ridge separating the upper and lower portions of the body. Shaw's version, with the elegantly embossed throat, has smooth panels from the top rim to the base.

Pear is recognized by its squatty bulbous body and the pairs of long narrow leaves at the handle terminals. The finial is a perky pear atop the domed lid. Note that there are two styles of bases - one has a shaped base while others are pedestaled.

Niagara Fan is thought to be one of the first body styles decorated with the traditional Tea Leaf motif. The fan designs at the junction of each ridged section resemble Walley's Niagara Shape, thus the name, Niagara Fan.

Note that on Niagara Fan there are four flutes in the design, whereas Niagara Shape has five.  Also, the Shaw decoration extends al the way to the neck on teapots, etc.  The Walley design terminates at a decorative band that surrounds the neck.

Registered in 1856.